Statistical edge detection of concealed weapons using artificial neural networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6812, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Williams, Ian ^a   Svoboda, David ^b   Bowring, Nicholas ^a   Guest, Elizabeth ^c  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluttered images; Edge detection; Neural networks; Segmentation; Statistics; X ray baggage screening

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); GUNS (ARMAMENT); MASKS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUTTERED IMAGES; X-RAY BAGGAGE SCREENING;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 43249106767     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.766472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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