Safe VISITOR: VISible, infrared and terahertz object recognition for security screening application

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7309, Issue , 2009, Pages

  May, T ^a   Zieger, G ^a   Anders, S ^a   Zakosarenko, V ^a   Meyer, H G ^a   Schubert, M ^b   Starkloff, M ^b   Rossler M ^c   Thorwirth, G ^c   Krause, U ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Supracon AG   (Germany)

^c Jena Optronik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bolometer; Camera; Imaging; Terahertz; TES; THz

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCENARIO; ERROR RATE; FIELD TRIAL; HIDDEN OBJECTS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; IMAGE SCENE; IMAGING; LONG INFRARED; MICROBOLOMETER; MM-WAVE; OPTICAL APERTURE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; SECURITY CAMERAS; SECURITY SCREENING; SECURITY SOLUTIONS; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; STAND-OFF; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS; TEMPERATURE RESOLUTION; TERAHERTZ; TES; THZ; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY; VISIBLE LIGHT;

BOLOMETERS; COMBINES; COPYING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DETECTORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NANOSENSORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

CAMERAS;

EID: 69549084866     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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