Automatic detection of concealed dielectric objects for personnel imaging

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Wireless Sensing, Local Positioning and RFID, Proceedings, IMWS 2009 - Croatia

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ahmed, Sherif Sayed ^a   Ostwald, Olaf ^b   Schmidt, Lorenz Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ROHDE AND SCHWARZ GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microwave imaging; Object detection; Privacy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DESCRIPTION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; DIELECTRIC OBJECTS; EFFICIENT DETECTION; HUMAN OPERATOR; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; SIGNAL BANDWIDTH;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PERSONNEL;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 73649101745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMWS2.2009.5307899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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