Fuzzy clustering and enumeration of target type based on sonar returns

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-199

  Barshan, Billur ^a   Ayrulu, Birsel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means clustering; Sonar sensing; Target classification; Target differentiation; Target localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SONAR;

ENUMERATION; FUZZY CLUSTERING;

FUZZY SETS;

ALGORITHM;

EID: 0345392689     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00226-7     Document Type: Article

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