Real-time landmine detection with ground-penetrating radar using discriminative and adaptive hidden markov models

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1867-1885

  Frigui, Hichem ^a,d,e   Ho, K C ^b,f,g   Gader, Paul ^c,d,h,i  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^d IEEE   (United States)

^e ACM   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^g Electrical and Computer Engineering Department   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁱ University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive preprocessing; Corrective training; Hidden Markov models; Landmine detection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PREPROCESSING; CORRECTIVE TRAINING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LANDMINE DETECTION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; FEEDBACK; MARKOV PROCESSES; MINES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

RADAR;

EID: 28844502382     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.1867     Document Type: Review

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