红外搜索系统中弱小目标检测算法研究

 复杂背景下低信噪比弱小目标的检测是红外搜索系统中的重点和难点,为解决红外搜索系统中杂波干扰多、目标信噪比低等问题,提出一种模板匹配滤波的目标检测方法。该算法在预测背景的同时,通过对图像背景灰度值进行动态的阈值处理,自适应地进行背景抑制。当背景包含较多复杂因素时,采用模板匹配滤波的目标检测方法,消除背景抑制后的残留杂波,实现弱小目标的提取。试验结果表明：当场景较复杂且图像信噪比较低时,使用该算法处理后可使图像信噪比达到4 dB以上,从而提高了弱小目标的检测概率。     

复杂背景下红外弱小目标检测算法研究

复杂背景下低信噪比弱小目标的检测是红外预警系统中的重点和难点。为解决红外图像中杂波干扰多、目标信噪比低等问题,提出一种非线性空间滤波的目标检测方法。该算法在传统线性空间滤波算法的基础上,通过对预测点周围4个象限的背景灰度值进行计算,并动态地调节阈值,以达到突出小目标的目的。试验结果表明:当背景包含较多复杂因素时,采用非线性空间滤波的检测方法可有效地抑制杂波,实现弱小目标的提取,与线性滤波算法结果相比较,虚警数降低了3/4,且易于工程实现。     

一种基于生物侧抑制原理的星图点目标检测方法

针对星图中空间点状目标占有像素数少、信噪比低的问题,提出一种基于生物侧抑制原理的星图点目标检测方法。首先通过多级滤波对图像进行预处理,对信噪比较低的星图进行杂波抑制,其次采用一种基于生物视觉侧抑制理论的背景抑制网络模型进行二次滤波,最后采用二维熵分割提取图像中点目标。实验结果表明,该方法能够在有效地抑制图像中的强杂波背...     

层次卷积滤波红外弱小目标检测方法

针对单帧复杂背景红外图像点目标检测算法存在复杂背景下处理效果不理想、处理时间长的问题,提出了一种层次卷积滤波检测算法。主要分为两个部分：第一,根据红外小目标特性,设计一种层次卷积滤波的算子,对图像进行滤波处理,实现图像中小目标的增效和背景抑制的效果;第二,采用基于最大值的自适应阈值方法,对图像进行二值化操作,过滤背景杂波,最终提取到待检测的目标。在大量不同背景红外图像中进行实验,论文算法在背景抑制因子和信噪比增益的性能量化结果上优于现有5种典型红外弱小目标检测算法的性能结果,且平均处理时间仅为高斯拉普拉斯（Laplacian of Gaussian,LoG）滤波算法的30.42%。通过实验对比,表明该层次卷积滤波算法可以有效解决在不同复杂背景下的红外图像中对小目标检测的问题。     

红外装甲目标检测中背景抑制技术研究

鉴于红外装甲目标检测中红外图像对比度低、背景复杂,导致图像的信噪比低而难于进行目标的检测,提出一种基于小波和改进的分形理论相结合的背景抑制方法。针对红外图像呈现的相关性强的特点,利用小波分析将图像中的低频缓变背景滤除,得到包含目标和强边缘杂波的图像;又由于目标分形维数对尺度的敏感程度高于边缘杂波的分形维数,提出通过计算图像在不同尺度内不规则因子的变化率来进一步抑制背景中的边缘杂波。实验表明:该算法能显著提高图像的信噪比(信噪比增益在2左右),对背景边缘有很好的抑制效果。     

全方位形态学联合局部特征准则的点目标检测

对复杂背景下暗弱点目标和背景杂波特性进行了分析,提出了全方位多尺度的形态学滤波和局部特征准则去干扰的点目标检测方法。首先采用8个方向5×5维度的结构元素提取不同灰度分布的点目标,自适应阈值处理得到目标感兴趣区域,提高信噪比。其次,提出背景边缘点与点目标在局部邻域分布的判决准则,剔除残余背景边缘点。最终采用能量集中度阈值剔除噪点,在动基座平台实验中检测出低信噪比运动点目标。实验结果表明,在复杂背景和低信噪比条件下,提出算法的目标检测概率达到99.8%,同时虚警率为0.1%。与常用的最大中值滤波、高斯差分(DoG)尺度空间法、高斯混合模型等算法对比证明了提出的算法有效性强,对复杂背景抑制作用较好,同时复杂度不高,易于实时实现。     

基于时空非局部相似性的海上红外弱小目标检测

为了消除海上红外弱小目标检测中图像背景杂波和噪声的影响,提出了一种基于时空非局部相似性的红外图像弱小目标检测方法.该方法充分利用了相邻帧的红外图像序列间海面背景图像块的非局部自相关特性以及每帧内非局部背景图像块间的相似特性,并引入时空域图像块模型,该模型可利用加速近端梯度方法来有效求解.实验结果表明,与传统的红外弱小目标检测方法相比,所提方法不仅能更有效地保留目标的特征信息,还能使红外图像的峰值信噪比提高1.2倍以上,信杂比提高1.8倍以上.     

基于全方位形态学滤波和局部特征准则的点目标检测

对复杂背景下暗弱点目标和背景杂波特性进行了分析,提出了一种基于全方位多尺度的形态学滤波和局部特征准则的点目标检测方法。实验结果表明,在复杂背景和低信噪比条件下,所提算法的目标检测概率达到99.8%,虚警率为0.1%。与最大中值滤波法、高斯差分尺度空间法、高斯混合模型法进行对比,结果表明,所提算法对复杂背景的抑制作用较好,且算法复杂度不高,易于实时实现。     

采用视觉细胞响应模型的小目标复杂背景抑制

为了提高地面和云层等红外复杂背景下弱小目标的检测性能,提出了一种基于视觉细胞响应模型的红外弱小目标背景抑制新方法.首先利用简单细胞的感受野计算模型将原始图像采用Gabor函数卷积获得相同大小的两幅图像|然后采用设计的复杂细胞响应的非线性汇聚策略函数对获得的两幅图像进行融合处理,从而将红外图像中弱小目标和背景杂波分离,达到抑制背景的目的|最后采用自适应阈值分割技术得到目标点,实现了对红外弱小目标的检测跟踪.实验结果显示,与去局部均值和最大中值滤波两种滤波方法相比较,该方法能有效地检测出信杂比较低的弱小目标信号.     

匹配滤波器优化设计及在红外弱小点目标检测中的应用

针对红外传感器成像信噪比低且易受噪声、背景杂波干扰的问题,结合红外图像中点目标成像的特性,充分利用目标、背景杂波及噪声在空间域中的分布特性,进行空间匹配滤波器的优化设计.首先对红外点目标特性进行了分析,在此基础上进行一维匹配滤波器的优化设计,进而构建了优化设计的空间匹配滤波器.结合优化设计匹配滤波器、形态学背景抑制和自适应门限的红外弱小目标枪测算法由于充分考虑了红外点目标的衍射效应和目标与背景的灰度差异,使滤波过程智能地融入了目标和背景的特性,极大地提高了红外弱小目标的检测性能.实测数据验证表明,本检测算法对低信噪比(f<,SNR>≤2)的红外图像,在保证10<'-5>虚警概率前提下,检测概率不小于95%.     

Spatial and temporal bilateral filter for infrared small target enhancement

This paper presents a spatial and temporal bilateral filter (BF) to detect target trajectories, by extracting spatial target information using a spatial BF and temporal target information using a temporal BF. Background prediction when it is covered by targets is the key to small target detection. In order to apply the BF to a small target detection field for this purpose, this paper presents a novel spatial and temporal BF with an adaptive standard deviation to predict spatial background and temporal background profiles, based on analysis of the blocks surrounding a spatial and temporal filter window. In order to discriminate between the edge or object regions with a flat background and the target region spatially and temporally, spatial and temporal variances of the blocks surrounding the filter window are calculated in a spatial infrared (IR) image and temporal profile. The spatial and temporal variances adjust standard deviations of the spatial and temporal BF. Through this procedure, spatial background and temporal background profiles are predicted, and then small targets can be detected by subtracting the predicted spatial background (and temporal background profile) from the original IR image (and original temporal profile) and multiplying spatial and temporal target information. To compare existing target detection methods and the proposed method, signal-to-clutter ratio gain (SCRG) and background suppression factor (BSF) are employed for spatial performance comparison and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) is used for detection-performance comparison of the target trajectory. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior target detection rate and a lower false-alarm rate.     

Detection method for small and dim targets from a time series of images observed by a space-based optical detection system

To revisit cataloged space targets, a space-based optical detection system normally observes space targets continuously in a target tracking mode. In the time series of images produced by continuous observation, there are not only the target but also complicated background clutter (a mass of stars) and noises. The existing method only can detect the target with an signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) greater than 6 from these images. This paper presents a detection method for the target with an SNR less than 6. The proposed method consists of an SNR enhancement algorithm and an adaptive background and noise suppression algorithm. Simulation and analytical results show the proposed method detects the target submerged in noise and background clutter when SNR is equal to 3 and the detection probability and the false alarm probability both reach very high performance. This proposed method can help solve the problem of revisiting some weak cataloged space targets.     

基于回形窗的弱小多目标图像分割方法

提出一种红外弱小多目标图像分割方法,用一个回形窗口和对比度阈值分割图像.对天空背景下低信噪比的红外弱小多目标图像序列能够有效的分割,抑制噪音干扰.将该方法与传统的图像分割方法做了比较,并对用不同阈值,不同窗口分割时的分割结果进行了分析.实验表明,该算法在执行效率和检测概率上能够取得满意的结果.     

基于光流直方图的云背景下低帧频小目标探测方法

对低帧频、云层背景下,低信噪比的弱点目标探测率降低的问题.提出了光流直方图(OFH)的定义.并且给出了OFH的性质.分析了低帧频下红外图像探测弱点目标时探测率降低的原凶,提出了一种基于OFH背景补偿的红外点目标探测算法.利用OFH得到背景的运动欠量.进行运动背景补偿;然后利用目标与云层运动差异性,得到帧间比较结果,并对比较结果通过Robinson滤波器进一步滤除残留的边缘,达到降低虚警的目的.实验结果表明,该算法中以显著提高往复杂背景下红外点目标检测概率,并凡能够探测出信噪比为1的目标.     

A robust infrared dim target detection method based on template filtering and saliency extraction

Dim target detection in infrared image with complex background and low signal-clutter ratio (SCR) is a significant and difficult task in the infrared target tracking system. A robust infrared dim target detection method based on template filtering and saliency extraction is proposed in this paper. The weighted gray map is obtained from the infrared image to highlight the target which is brighter than its neighbors and has weak correlation with its background. The target saliency map is then calculated by phase spectrum of Fourier Transform, so that the dim target detection could be converted to salient region extraction. The potential targets are finally extracted by combining the two maps. Moreover, position discrimination between targets in the two maps is used to exclude the false alarms and extract the targets. Experimental results on measured images indicate that our method is feasible, adaptable and robust in different backgrounds. The ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curves obtained from the simulated images demonstrate the proposed method outperforms some existing typical methods in both detection rate and false alarm rate, for target detection with low SCR.     

图像局部熵用于小目标检测研究

分析了局部熵用于小目标检测时造成目标范围扩散等问题的原因,并提出了熵增长方法.该方法用于点目标检测可避免发生目标范围扩散现象.由于边缘纹理和点目标在熵增长处理过程中表现出截然相反的属性,故可避免边缘纹理对于小目标检测产生的严重干扰.该方法也可用于不受噪声干扰的边缘检测.针对相同信噪比目标在不同背景亮度中具有不同熵值和增长量的问题,提出用方差增长替代熵增长,使相同信噪比目标在不同背景亮度中表现出相同的增长量值,降低了后续目标分割的难度.试验表明,熵增长方法和方差增长方法能够有效检测1或2像素大小的点目标,并不受背景中边缘纹理的干扰.对算法的复杂度进行了分析,并提出采用双通道并行流水线方式实现工程化的设计思路.     

基于双边滤波的弱小目标背景抑制

 为解决红外弱小目标检测技术中结构化背景抑制的难题,利用双边滤波集成了图像几何、光度和局部结构相似性等信息并以非迭代、局部操作的优点,提出了一种基于双边滤波的红外弱小目标背景抑制算法,并引入了局部梯度的统计特性来抑制背景细节、增强目标信息,从而达到更好抑制图像中的背景,突出目标图像,提高图像整体对比度、信噪比的目的。实验结果显示,与小波滤波算法比较,该算法对含有弱小目标的复杂背景从主观视觉和数值指标都具有良好抑制效果。     

基于局部纹理分析的红外小目标检测及其DSP实现

在红外小目标图像中,目标具有与其邻域背景明显不同的纹理和频率特征,在不同尺度和不同频率通道上有不同的表现,利用小波的多尺度分析理论,可将小目标与其邻域背景区分开。采用适合在低信噪比下小目标检测的局部纹理分析方法实现了小目标检测。为了满足红外小目标检测的实时性要求,采用TI公司的高性能数字多媒体DSP芯片实现了小目标检测系统。通过软件程序的优化设计来进一步提高程序运行速度与流水效率,具有良好的软硬件体系结构。通过对实测红外序列图像进行实验表明,所设计的系统能实时地、稳定地检测复杂背景下的1~3个像素的运动小目标。     

A novel infrared small target detection method based on BEMD and local inverse entropy

Compared to other targets, it is more difficult to detect infrared small targets due to several aspects such as the low signal to noise ratio, low contrast, small size, the lack of shape and texture information of the targets, especially under complex background. In this paper, a novel infrared small target detection method based on peer group filter (PGF), bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) and local inverse entropy (LIE) is proposed to overcome these difficulties. The PGF is implemented to remove the noise and improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the initial image. Our proposed BEMD algorithm is able to estimate the background effectively and get the target image by removing the background from the original image and segmenting the Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) making use of the local inverse entropy. Experimental results demonstrate that the novel method can extract the small targets validly and accurately.     

Edge directional 2D LMS filter for infrared small target detection

In this paper, we introduce an edge directional 2D least mean squares (LMSs) filter for small target detection in infrared (IR) images. Generally, the 2D LMS filter functions as a background prediction to apply to IR small target detection field. In order to accurately predict background objects as well as regions covered by small targets, the proposed 2D LMS filter take full advantage of edge information of prediction pixels corresponding to surrounding blocks around current filter window. And, to adjust adaptively its step size in the background and small target region, the adaptive region-dependent nonlinear step size is calculated by using the variance of the prediction pixels of the surrounding blocks. This prediction structure and adaptive step size of the proposed 2D LMS filter is applied to the background region including objects such as cloud edge and small target region differently. Through this way, the proposed 2D LMS filter predicts the background excluding small targets. Then, by subtracting the predicted background from the original IR image, small targets can be extracted. Experimental results show that the proposed 2D LMS filter has stronger target extraction and better background suppression ability compared to the existing 2D LMS filters.