An approach to target detection in forested scenes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6950, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Grönwall, Christina ^a   Chevalier, Tomas ^a   Tolt, Gustav ^a   Andersson, Pierre ^b  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^b SAAB AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Detection; Laser radar; Performance; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DETECTORS; IMAGE SENSORS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL RADAR; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RADAR; SENSORS; TARGETS; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

(2+1) DIMENSIONS; (N-1) CRITERION; 3D SENSORS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; FOREGROUND OBJECTS; FOREST ENVIRONMENTS; FORESTED AREAS; GENERAL (CO); HIGH ACCURACY; IN ORDER; LASER RADAR (LADAR); MAN MADE OBJECTS; MODEL LIBRARIES; REAL DATA; REFLECTING SURFACES; SEQUENTIAL APPROACH; SHADOW ANALYSIS; TARGET CHARACTERISTICS; TARGET DETECTIONS; TARGET RECOGNITION; TREE CANOPIES;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 45249085459     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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