Ship target detection and tracking in cluttered infrared imagery

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Wu, Jiawei ^a   Mao, Shiyi ^a   Wang, Xiaoping ^b   Zhang, Tianxu ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

forward looking infrared; imaging size; iterative segmentation; mean shift; multilevel filter; target detection; target tracking

Indexed keywords

BACK-PROJECTION; FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED; FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED IMAGES; IMAGE SCALING; IMAGING DISTANCES; IMAGING PROCESS; INFRARED IMAGERY; ITERATIVE SEGMENTATION; MEAN SHIFT; MULTILEVEL FILTER; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; ROBUST DETECTION; SHIP TARGETS; SMALL TARGETS;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED IMAGING; SHIPS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 81755172983     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3578402     Document Type: Article

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