Target discrimination and classification in through-the-wall radar imaging

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4664-4676

  Debes, Christian ^a   Hahn, Jrgen ^a   Zoubir, Abdelhak M ^a   Amin, Moeness G ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; radar imaging; segmentation; through the wall

Indexed keywords

BACK-PROJECTION; CHANGE DETECTION; COMPENSATION METHOD; DOPPLER; FEATURE SPACE; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; IMAGING SCANNERS; MICROWAVE IMAGES; STATIONARY TARGETS; SYSTEM RESOLUTION; TARGET DISCRIMINATION; TARGET LOCATION; THROUGH-THE-WALL; WIDE BAND RADAR;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 80052874015     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2157914     Document Type: Article

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