The Distribution of the Size and Number of Shadows Cast on a Line Segment in a Poisson Random Field

Abstract

The present paper presents algorithms for the computation of the distributions of the number and lengths of shadows cast on a line segment by random obscuring elements, when there is one source of light (in the origin), and the obscuring elements are realized according to a Poisson random field. These algorithms have applications in problems of line of sight, target detection, image processing and others.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 1991
Accession Number
ADA233697

Entities

People

  • Gang Li
  • S. Zacks

Organizations

  • Binghamton University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Computations
  • Contracts
  • Detection
  • Image Processing
  • Line Of Sight
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Target Detection
  • Targets
  • Universities
  • Visibility

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  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Regression Analysis.