Micro-Doppler-based target detection and feature extraction in indoor and outdoor environments

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 345, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 700-722

  Thayaparan, T ^a   Stankovic L ^b   Djurovic I ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO   (Montenegro)

Author keywords

Human gait; Micro Doppler; S method; Time frequency analysis; Viterbi algorithm

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER; DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOURIER; FRANKLIN (CO); GAIT RECOGNITION; HIGH NOISE ENVIRONMENTS; HUMAN GAIT; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY ESTIMATION (IFE); MILITARY SURVEILLANCE; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; QUADRATIC TIME; RADAR SIGNALS; RECONNAISSANCE OPERATIONS; S METHOD; TARGET DETECTIONS; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TARGET RECOGNITION; VITERBI;

ALGORITHMS; ARSENIC; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DETECTORS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MODULATION; PAPER; RESEARCH; ROTATION; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SET THEORY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TARGETS; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 46049113520     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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