Simultaneous extraction of geometry and surface properties of targets using simple infrared sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2437-2447

  Aytaç, Tayfun ^a   Barshan, Billur ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Infrared sensors; Optical sensing; Pattern recognition; Position estimation; Surface differentiation; Surface localization; Target differentiation; Target localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFRARED IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL SENSORS; SCANNING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

POSITION ESTIMATION; SURFACE DIFFERENTIATION; SURFACE LOCALIZATION; TARGET DIFFERENTIATION; TARGET LOCALIZATION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 9744225181     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1789136     Document Type: Article

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