Multispectral illumination and image processing techniques for active millimeter-wave concealed object detection

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 6357-6365

  Zhang, Lixiao ^a   Stiens, Johan ^a   Elhawil, Amna ^a   Vounckx, Roger ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVES; OBJECT DETECTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CONCEALED OBJECT DETECTION; IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; INDOOR APPLICATIONS; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGES; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 60949103735     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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