Moving weak point target detection and estimation with three-dimensional double directional filter in IR cluttered background

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Li, Meng ^a   Zhang, Tianxu ^a   Yang, Weidong ^a   Sun, Xiechang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

3DDDF; 3DDF; IR images; TDLMS; TDSTAF; Weak dim target detection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CLUTTERED BACKGROUND; TARGET DETECTION; WEAK DIM TARGET DETECTION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 33747601849     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2056586     Document Type: Article

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