Target-acquisition performance in undersampled infrared imagers: Static imagery to motion video

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 33, 2005, Pages 7055-7061

  Krapels, Keith ^a   Driggers, Ronald G ^b   Teaney, Brian ^b  

^a OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTION ESTIMATION; MOTION PICTURES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; VISION;

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; INFRARED IMAGERS; SUPERRESOLUTION; TARGET ACQUISITION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFRARED RAYS; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 29144494053     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007055     Document Type: Article

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