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Automatic extraction of infrared small target based on support vector regression and adaptive region growing algorithm

Journal article (SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng.) published 2007-04-01 describing an automatic method to extract small targets in infrared imagery using support vector regression and an adaptive region growing algorithm. The excerpt identifies the publication but provides no experimental results or deployment details.

Categories: science-and-space, technology

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Presents a technical method for detecting small infrared targets that could be relevant to imaging and signal-processing research.

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Automatic extraction of infrared small target based on support vector regression and adaptive region growing algorithm

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