Automatic target detection and tracking in forward-looking infrared image sequences using morphological connected operators

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 802-813

  Braga Neto, Ulisses ^a,b   Choudhary, Manish ^c   Goutsias, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET DETECTION-AND-TRACKING; CONNECTED OPERATORS; FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED IMAGE SEQUENCE; MOTION BASED ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIGITAL FILTERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFRARED IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 8144228102     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1789982     Document Type: Article

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