Focal Plane Processing Techniques For Background Clutter Suppression And Target Detection

T. F. Tao; D. Hilmers; B. Evenor; D. Bar Yehoshua

doi:10.1117/12.957259

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20 August 1979 Focal Plane Processing Techniques For Background Clutter Suppression And Target Detection

T. F. Tao, D. Hilmers, B. Evenor, D. Bar Yehoshua

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Proceedings Volume 0178, Smart Sensors; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957259
Event: Technical Symposium East, 1979, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

Objectives of new infrared smart sensor systems-and their focal plane processing requirements for target detection are presented. Various image processing techniques for enhancement of target-to-noise ratio by performing background clutter suppression are surveyed, including a family of statistical target estimation techniques being developed at the Naval Postgraduate School. Highlights of their results in processing a set of multiple frame infrared test images are presented using statistical spatial filters for single frames of image and statistical temporal filters and combined statistical spatial/temporal filters for multiple frames of images.

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T. F. Tao, D. Hilmers, B. Evenor, and D. Bar Yehoshua "Focal Plane Processing Techniques For Background Clutter Suppression And Target Detection", Proc. SPIE 0178, Smart Sensors, (20 August 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957259

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