A simple and efficient saliency extraction method based on multi-scale horizon-directional filter for infrared dim small target detection

Renbo Xia; Jinbin Zhao; Bin Hui; Zheng Chang; Guangchao Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.902911

2 December 2011 A simple and efficient saliency extraction method based on multi-scale horizon-directional filter for infrared dim small target detection

Renbo Xia, Jinbin Zhao, Bin Hui, Zheng Chang, Guangchao Zhou

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Proceedings Volume 8004, MIPPR 2011: Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision; 80041D (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.902911
Event: Seventh International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (MIPPR2011), 2011, Guilin, China

Abstract

This paper presents a simple and computationally efficient saliency extraction method for detecting dim small target from single frame in heterogeneous background. The proposed method is based on background subtraction (BS), which identifies targets from the portion of a image that differs significantly from a background model. A set of horizon-directional filters (HDF) with multi-scales are first implemented to effectively recover the background maps from the input image. As a result, the foreground maps are extracted by computing the absolute difference between the input image and the estimated background maps. Then the foreground maps are fused into the total saliency map using a simple scheme. Finally, the experimental results of various cluttered background images show that the proposed method is efficient and has an outstanding performance in dim small target detection just by thresholding the saliency map.

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Renbo Xia, Jinbin Zhao, Bin Hui, Zheng Chang, and Guangchao Zhou "A simple and efficient saliency extraction method based on multi-scale horizon-directional filter for infrared dim small target detection", Proc. SPIE 8004, MIPPR 2011: Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, 80041D (2 December 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.902911

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