Pedestrian tracking routine for passive automotive night vision systems

Sensor Review

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 310-316

  Omar, Mohammed ^a   Zhou, Yi ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Image sensors; Road vehicles

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; INFRARED IMAGING; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; NIGHT VISION SYSTEMS; SEED DETECTION; THERMAL ACQUISITIONS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 34548673276     PISSN: 02602288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02602280710821443     Document Type: Article

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