Landmine discrimination using the Kullback-Leibler distance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6553, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wilson, J N ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Information theory; Kullback Leibler divergence; Landmine detection

Indexed keywords

EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DISTANCE; LANDMINE DATA; LANDMINE DISCRIMINATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY;

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EID: 35948987217     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.722284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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