Discriminating small extended targets at sea from clutter and other classes of boats in infrared and visual light imagery

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6969, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Van Den Broek, Sebastiaan P ^a   Bouma, Henri ^a   Degache, Marianne A C ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boats; Classification; Clutter reduction; Jet ski; Small targets; Target recognition

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; BOATS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA PROCESSING; DATA RECORDING; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; FILTRATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LABELING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TARGET TRACKING;

(SPM) CLASSES; (U ,V) OPERATOR; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS (CO); CLUTTER REDUCTION; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; DIFFERENT SIZES; EXTENDED TARGETS; FALSE ALARMS (FA); INFRARED (IR); SMALL TARGETS; TARGET FEATURES;

TARGETS;

EID: 44949257323     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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