Automatic extraction of infrared small target based on support vector regression and adaptive region growing algorithm

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Liu, RuiMing ^a   Yang, Lei ^a   Liu, Erqi ^b   Yang, Jie ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Wang, Fanglin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

High pass filter; Median filter; Region growing algorithm; Support vector regression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED IMAGING; TARGETS;

MEDIAN FILTER; REGION GROWING ALGORITHM; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 34250723933     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2724874     Document Type: Article

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