Adaptive target detection in forward-looking infrared imagery using the eigenspace separation transform and principal component analysis

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1767-1776

  Young, S Susan ^a   Kwon, Heesung ^a   Der, Sandor Z ^a   Nasrabadi, Nasser M ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

EIGENSPACE SEPARATION TRANSFORM; EIGENVECTOR ANALYSIS; FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED IMAGERY; IMAGE VECTORS; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING; TARGET DETECTION;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 4644351974     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1768534     Document Type: Article

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