A knowledge-based framework for image enhancement in aviation security

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2354-2365

  Singh, Maneesha ^a   Singh, Sameer ^a   Partridge, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aviation security; Image analysis; Image viewability; Knowledge based framework; Neural networks; X ray

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; ALGORITHMS; AVIATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AVIATION SECURITY; IMAGE VIEWABILITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED FRAMEWORK;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AVIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TERRORISM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AVIATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SECURITY MEASURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TERRORISM; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 10044235384     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2004.835077     Document Type: Article

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