Pulse-Length-Tolerant Features and Detectors for Sector-Scan Sonar Imagery

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 138-156

  Perry, Stuart W ^a,b   Guan, Ling ^c  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b Canon Info Syst Research Australia   (Australia)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Neural networks; Sector scan sonar; Statistical classifiers; Underwater object detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

FEATURE SELECTION; SECTOR-SCAN SONAR; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIERS; UNDERWATER OBJECT DETECTION;

SONAR;

EID: 1842586124     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2003.819312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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