Lightweight biometric detection system for human classification using pyroelectric infrared detectors

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3031-3037

  Burchett, John ^a   Shankar, Mohan ^a   Ben Hamza, A ^a   Guenther, Bob D ^a   Pitsianis, Nikos ^a   Brady, David J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE SENSORS; PLASTIC LENSES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PYROELECTRICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRIC DETECTION; HEAT EMISSIONS; HUMAN CLASSIFICATION; PYROELECTRIC INFRARED DETECTORS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33745048112     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003031     Document Type: Article

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