Small Targets in LADAR Images Using Fuzzy Clustering

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  • Sok Gek Lim
  • James C. Bezdek
چکیده

This paper describes an automatic target recognition system for detecting targets in temporal sequences of intensity LADAR images. The system rst nds all objects in the images using a general method that is capable of nding both blobs and curves. Then features of the objects are extracted. Next fuzzy c-means is used to cluster the objects in feature space. Finally, prototypes generated for each class of objects are used to classify unknown objects using a nearest prototype classiier.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007