Autofocusing of through-the-wall radar imagery under unknown wall characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1785-1795

  Ahmad, Fauzia ^a   Amin, Moeness G ^a   Mandapati, Govindaraju ^a  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofocusing; Higher order statistics; image enhancement; Radar imaging; Through the wall

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; STATISTICS;

AUTOFOCUSING; HIG-ORDER STATISTICS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADAR;

EID: 34347403437     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.899030     Document Type: Article

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