Chaotic neural networks clustering: an application to landmine detection by dynamic infrared imaging

Leonardo Angelini; F. De Carlo; Carmela Marangi; M. Mannarelli; Giuseppe Nardulli; M. Pellicoro; Giuseppe Satalino; Sebastiano Stramaglia

doi:10.1117/1.1412623

1 December 2001 Chaotic neural networks clustering: an application to landmine detection by dynamic infrared imaging

Leonardo Angelini, F. De Carlo, Carmela Marangi, M. Mannarelli, Giuseppe Nardulli, M. Pellicoro, Giuseppe Satalino, Sebastiano Stramaglia

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 40, Issue 12, (December 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1412623

We describe a nonparametric approach of dynamic thermography to the detection of buried antipersonnel (AP) mines. Dynamic thermography consists of processing temporal sequences of IR images taken from the same scene, submitted to either artificial or natural temperature variations. The aim is to obtain an image segmentation where mine and soil can be discriminated due to the different time evolution of their thermal properties. The proposed approach is rooted in a clustering stage performed by a chaotic neural network and provides the correct classification by analyzing very short image sequences, thus enabling a fast acquisition time. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated on image sequences of plastic AP mines taken from realistic mine fields.

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Leonardo Angelini, F. De Carlo, Carmela Marangi, M. Mannarelli, Giuseppe Nardulli, M. Pellicoro, Giuseppe Satalino, and Sebastiano Stramaglia "Chaotic neural networks clustering: an application to landmine detection by dynamic infrared imaging," Optical Engineering 40(12), (1 December 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1412623

Published: 1 December 2001

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