Analysis of new top-hat transformation and the application for infrared dim small target detection

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2145-2156

  Bai, Xiangzhi ^a   Zhou, Fugen ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Infrared dim small target; Structuring element; Target detection; Top hat transformation

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DIM SMALL TARGETS; MULTISCALES; NOISE SUPPRESSION; SPECIAL PROPERTIES; STRUCTURING ELEMENT; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TARGET DETECTION; TOP-HAT TRANSFORMATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; TARGET DRONES;

TARGETS;

EID: 76749154956     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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