Input feature selection for automatic target recognition of temporal data

Military Operations Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 51-65

  Laine, Trevor I ^a   Bauer, Kenneth W ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Target Recognition; Combat ID; Feature Saliency; Feature Selection; Neural Networks; Pattern Recognition; Recurrent Neural Networks; Sensor Fusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33144469118     PISSN: 02755823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5711/morj.10.2.51     Document Type: Article

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