A Method for Ship Target Detection Based on Image Fusion

Author

Weina, Zhou ; Kaiyu, Xu ; Shuangyi, Li

Author_Institution

Shanghai Maritime Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2007

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the characteristics of infrared ship target in the complex background, a multi-frame image fusion method using morphological difference pyramid or wavelet transform was proposed to get a more clear and reliable image. The experimental results show that both of the methods can overcome the noise interfere of the complex background in a certain extent, which enhance the capabilities of target detection and situation awareness, but there are still some differences in their work speed and performance.

Keywords

infrared imaging; mathematical morphology; sensor fusion; ships; target tracking; wavelet transforms; complex background; infrared ship target; morphological difference pyramid; multi-frame image fusion; ship target detection; situation awareness; wavelet transform; Background noise; Discrete wavelet transforms; Image fusion; Image reconstruction; Infrared detectors; Infrared imaging; Instruments; Marine vehicles; Nonlinear filters; Object detection; morphological difference pyramid; performance; speed; target detection; wavelet;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Measurement and Instruments, 2007. ICEMI '07. 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1136-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1136-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMI.2007.4350831

Filename

4350831