A study of morphological pre-processing approaches for track-before-detect dim target detection

Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lai, John ^a   Ford, Jason J ^a   O'Shea, Peter ^a   Walker, Rodney ^a   Bosse, Michael ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DETECTION RATES; DIM TARGET DETECTION; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGES; PRE-PROCESSING; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; RAW SENSOR; SIMULATION STUDIES; SUB PIXELS; TARGET FEATURE; TEMPORAL FILTERING; TRACK BEFORE DETECT; VISION BASED ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTER VISION; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

EID: 84855579920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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