Performance of autofocusing schemes for single target and populated scenes behind unknown walls

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6547, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ahmad, Fauzia ^a   Amin, Moeness G ^a  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofocusing; Deblurring; Radar imagery; Through the wall

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADAR SYSTEMS;

AUTOFOCUSING; HIGHER ORDER STANDARDIZED MOMENTS; RADAR IMAGERY; SINGLE TARGET;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 35949002092     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.720085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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