Bayesian analysis of lidar signals with multiple returns

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2170-2180

  Hernández Marín, Sergio ^a   Wallace, Andrew M ^a   Gibson, Gavin J ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAXWELL INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burst illumination laser; Delayed rejection; Lidar; Photon counting; Reversible jump MCMC; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIXELS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; LASER IMAGING SYSTEM; REVERSIBLE JUMP MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36249021928     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1122     Document Type: Article

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