Spatial filtering for detection of partly occluded targets

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Grönwall, Christina ^a   Tolt, Gustav ^a   Chevalier, Tomas ^a   Larsson, Håkan ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

data reduction; detection; geometric properties; laser radar; performance; range data; spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; LASER RADARS; PERFORMANCE; RANGE DATA; SPATIAL FILTERINGS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ERROR DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTICAL RADAR;

DATA REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTS; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADAR;

EID: 79957506770     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3560262     Document Type: Article

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