Improving mine recognition through processing and Dempster-Shafer fusion of ground-penetrating radar data

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1233-1250

  Milisavljević, Nada ^a,b   Bloch, Isabelle ^b   van den Broek, Sebastiaan ^c   Acheroy, Marc ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer framework; Ground penetrating radar; Humanitarian mine detection; Mass assignment; Randomized Hough transform for hyperbola detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

FALSE ALARMS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DETECTION METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MINE;

EID: 0347928683     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(02)00251-0     Document Type: Article

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