A Ray-Tracing Approach for Simulating Recognition Abilities of Active Infrared Sensor Arrays

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 237-247

  Iske, Burkhard ^a   Jäger, Björn ^a   Rückert, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous systems; Impulse response; Infrared sensors; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAY TRACING;

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; INFRARED SENSOR ARRAYS; INFRARED SENSORS;

SENSORS;

EID: 2342648837     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2004.823667     Document Type: Article

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