The design of wavelets for image enhancement and target detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7351, Issue , 2009, Pages

  DelMarco, Stephen ^a   Agaian, Sos ^b  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Infrared imagery; Target detection; Visibility; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; CAPTURE CAPABILITY; CFAR DETECTOR; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DIM TARGET; DIM TARGET DETECTION; DIRECTIONAL FILTERING; HIGH CONTRAST; IMAGE FRAMES; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; IMAGE SCENE; INFRARED IMAGERY; INFRARED VIDEO; LOW CONTRAST; MICHELSON; NONLINEAR CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL WAVELETS; SPATIAL DOMAINS; TARGET DETECTION; THRESHOLDING; VISUAL INFORMATION; WAVELET; WAVELET-BASED APPROACH; WAVELET-BASED IMAGES;

EDGE DETECTION; EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS; VIDEO RECORDING; VISIBILITY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 69549124217     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.816135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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