Target detection in cluttered forward-looking infrared imagery

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Khan, Jesmin F ^a   Alam, Mohammad S ^a  

^a University of South Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition; Clutter rejection; False alarm; Forward looking infrared imagery; Morphological preprocessing; Pattern detection; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CLUTTER REJECTION; FALSE ALARM REJECTION; FORWARD-LOOKING INFRARED IMAGERY; MORPHOLOGICAL PREPROCESSING; PATTERN DETECTION;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 27144516781     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1950147     Document Type: Article

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