A new algorithm for passive millimeter-wave image enhancement

Author

Yang, Jie ; Wang, Jianguo ; Li, Liangchao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

Volume

3

fYear

2010

Abstract

Passive millimeter-wave image are heavily blurred due to the low-pass filter effect of antenna and the influence of noise. Aimed the problem, an improved method using partial differential equations applied to passive millimeter-wave image high-resolution is proposed. Based on nonlinear bidirectional Laplace filter algorithm, a new passive millimeter-wave image enhancement is proposed. For different characteristics regions of image, using different strategies for processing. Experimental results show that the new method can improve the quality of passive millimeter-wave image and reduce the noise more effectively compared with the original algorithm.

Keywords

image enhancement; low-pass filters; millimetre wave imaging; nonlinear filters; partial differential equations; antenna; low-pass filter; nonlinear bidirectional Laplace filter; partial differential equation; passive millimeter-wave image enhancement; passive millimeter-wave image high-resolution; Filtering algorithms; Image edge detection; Imaging; Millimeter wave technology; Noise; Pixel; Signal processing algorithms; anisotropic diffusion; image enhancement; nonlinear bidirectional Laplace filter; passive millimeter-wave imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6892-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6893-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPS.2010.5555382

Filename

5555382