Improvements in computer aided detection/computer aided classification (CAD/CAC) of bottom mines through post analysis of a diverse set of very shallow water (VSW) environmental test data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5415, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 327-335

  Ciany, Charles ^a   Zurawski, William ^a  

^a Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle; Computer Aided Classification; Computer Aided Detection; Data Fusion; Image Fusion; Sidescan Sonar Image Processing; Very Shallow Water Mine Countermeasure

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED CLASSIFICATION; DATA FUSION; IMAGE FUSION; SIDESCAN SONAR IMAGE PROCESSING; VERY SHALLOW WATER MINE COUNTERMEASURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MONITORING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 10044296363     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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