Infrared patch-image model for small target detection in a single image

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4996-5009

  Gao, Chenqiang ^a   Meng, Deyu ^b   Yang, Yi ^c   Wang, Yongtao ^d   Zhou, Xiaofang ^c   Hauptmann, Alexander G ^e  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared image; Low rank matrix recovery; Small target detection

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; LOW-RANK MATRIX RECOVERIES; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIOS; SMALL TARGET DETECTION; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; TRACKING APPLICATION;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); FACE RECOGNITION; INFRARED IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84885647207     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2281420     Document Type: Article

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