What can we learn from the shape of a correlation peak for position estimation?

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Awwal, Abdul Ahad S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FILTERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATCHED FILTERS; MULTIUSER DETECTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CORRELATION PEAKS; DETECTING OBJECTS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; MATCHED FILTERING; NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY; PEAK AMPLITUDE; POSITION ESTIMATION; ROBUST TECHNIQUE;

OBJECT DETECTION;

EID: 77955622181     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000B40     Document Type: Article

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