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Recognition of 3-D aircrafts by fourier descriptors with fast and efficient library search

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Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences

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Fourier descriptors are used as features for 3-D aircraft classification and pose determination from a 2-D image recorded at an arbitrary viewing angle. By the feature ranking of Fourier descriptors, a classification procedure based on the fast nearest neighbour rule is proposed to save the matching time of an unknown aircraft with a partial library search. The testing results of some typical examples indicate this method is generally applicable and efficient in 3-D aircraft recognition.

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  1. College of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, China

    Zhao Hengzhuo & Wang Yanping

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  1. Zhao Hengzhuo
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Supported by the National Defence Foundation of China

Zhao Hengzhuo: born in 1973, Graduate student

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Hengzhuo, Z., Yanping, W. Recognition of 3-D aircrafts by fourier descriptors with fast and efficient library search. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 3, 169–174 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02827546

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