Infrared small target enhancement and detection based on modified top-hat transformations

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1193-1201

  Bai, Xiangzhi ^a   Zhou, Fugen ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Infrared small target; Target detection; Target enhancement; Target enhancement operation; Top hat transformation

Indexed keywords

DARK REGION; ENHANCEMENT OPERATIONS; INFRARED IMAGES; ITERATIVE THRESHOLDING; SMALL TARGETS; TARGET DETECTION; TARGET REGIONS; TOP-HAT TRANSFORMATION;

INFRARED IMAGING; TARGET DRONES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77958086774     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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