Infrared small target detection and tracking under the conditions of dim target intensity and clutter background

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6786, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bai, Xiangzhi ^a   Zhou, Fugen ^a   Jin, Ting ^a   Xie, Yongchun ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF CONTROL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Clutter background; Dilation cumulation; Infrared dim small target; Iterative thresholding; Target detection and tracking; Top hat transformation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; INFRARED IMAGING; ITERATIVE METHODS;

CLUTTER BACKGROUND; DILATION CUMULATION; INFRARED DIM SMALL TARGET;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 42549155768     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.751691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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