Detecting Small Target of Ship at Sea by Infrared Image

Author

Lu, Jun-Wei ; He, You-Jin ; Li, Hai-Yan ; Lu, Feng-Lin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Control Eng., Nanjing Aeronaut. Eng. Inst.

fYear

2006

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

169

Abstract

Detecting small target of ship at sea is very important to missile guidance. In this paper, infrared images are used to capture the information of small ship at sea, an edge detector combining with a median filter are used to seek for the sky-sea line and the objects in the images. According to the features of ship targets in sky-sea background, a criterion is set up to distinguish the small ship target from other object. A complete algorithm is introduced, it was simulated in computer with a set of 700 images. The results showed that this algorithm could locate precisely the positions of the small ship targets

Keywords

edge detection; infrared imaging; median filters; military computing; missile guidance; object detection; edge detector; infrared image; median filter; ship targets; small ship; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Image edge detection; Information filtering; Information filters; Infrared detectors; Infrared imaging; Marine vehicles; Missiles; Object detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation Science and Engineering, 2006. CASE '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0310-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0311-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COASE.2006.326874

Filename

4120340