Edge-directed adaptive nonuniformity correction for staring infrared focal plane arrays

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Tianxu ^a   Shi, Yan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ghosting artifact; Infrared focal plane array; Neural network based nonuniformity correction; Nonuniformity correction; Object degeneration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDGE DETECTION; INFRARED IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

GHOSTING ARTIFACTS; INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION ALGORITHM (NN-NUC); OBJECT DEGENERATION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 33748608316     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2158404     Document Type: Article

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