Region of Interest Extraction in Infrared Images Using One-Bit Transform

Author

Erturk, S.

Author_Institution

Lab. of Image & Signal Process., Kocaeli Univ., Kocaeli, Turkey

Volume

20

Issue

10

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 2013

Firstpage

952

Lastpage

955

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach for region of interest (ROI) extraction in infrared images based on the one-bit transform. Potential interest regions in the infrared image are obtained by a target mask that is obtained using the one-bit transform in a local way. The histograms of the original image and the masked image are compared and the histogram region that remains unchanged is used to obtain an automated threshold value that is then utilized to detect the ROI in the infrared image. The proposed approach can be used as an effective pre-process for target detection and tracking algorithms in infrared images.

Keywords

feature extraction; infrared imaging; object detection; target tracking; transforms; ROI detection; ROI extraction; automated threshold value; histogram region; infrared images; masked image histogram; one-bit transform; original image histogram; region of interest extraction; target detection algorithm; target tracking algorithm; Band-pass filters; Hardware; Histograms; Kernel; Materials; Transforms; Please add index terms;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9908

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LSP.2013.2274637

Filename

6567936