Nonstationary hidden Markov models for multiaspect discriminative feature extraction from radar targets

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 5 II, 2007, Pages 2203-2214

  Zhu, Feng ^a,b   Zhang, Xian Dan ^a,b   Hu, Ya Feng ^a,b   Xie, Deguang ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; High range resolution profile (HRRP); Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Nonstationary hidden Markov model (NSHMM); Radar target recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HIGH-RANGE RESOLUTION PROFILE; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; NONSTATIONARY HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 34247860645     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.892708     Document Type: Article

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