Enhanced ATR using Fisher fusion techniques with application to side-looking sonar

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7664, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ciany, Charles M ^a   Zurawski, William C ^a  

^a Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Target Recognition; Data Fusion; Sidescan Sonar Image Processing

Indexed keywords

ATR ALGORITHM; DATA SETS; FUSION PRINCIPLES; FUSION TECHNIQUES; HIGH RESOLUTION; OPTIMAL WEIGHTING; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; RAYTHEON; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SCORING ALGORITHMS; SHADOW REGIONS; SIDE-LOOKING SONARS; SIDESCAN SONAR IMAGE PROCESSING; SIDESCAN SONAR IMAGES; SONAR IMAGE; THRESHOLDING; UNDERSEA ENVIRONMENT; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

SONAR;

EID: 79954548319     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.852401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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