Target classification approach based on the belief function theory

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 574-583

  Ristic, Branko ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; BELIEF FUNCTION THEORY; TARGET CLASSIFICATION;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 24944469586     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2005.1468749     Document Type: Article

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