Target extraction from blurred trace infrared images with a superstring galaxy template algorithm

Accurate and efficient targets extraction from blurred trace infrared images has very important meaning for latent trace evidence collection in crime scene. Based on the superstring theory, a superstring galaxy template extraction algorithm for infrared trace target is presented. First, all of the pixels are divided into three classes: target pixels, background pixels and blurred pixels. Next, the superstring template characteristics for every pixel in a blurred infrared image are calculated as the features of each pixel. Finally, a galaxy covering algorithm is proposed, target pixels and background pixels are used for training the galaxy covering domain of every galaxy classifiers, and these classifiers will divide each blurred pixel into two classes: a target pixel or a background pixel. Experimental results indicate that the superstring galaxy template algorithm can improve the target extraction rate and reduce the extraction error rate.     

Principal curvature for infrared small target detection

Small target detection in infrared image with complex background and low signal–noise ratio is an important and difficult task in the infrared target tracking system. In this paper, a principal curvature-based method is proposed. The principal curvatures of target pixels are negative and their absolute values are larger than that of background pixels and noise pixels in a Gaussian-blurred infrared image. The proposed filter takes a composite function of the curvatures for detection. An approximate model is also built for optimizing the parameters. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective and adaptable for infrared small target detection in complex background. Compared with several popular methods, the proposed algorithm demonstrates significant improvement on detection performance in terms of the parameters of signal clutter ratio gain, background suppression factor and ROC.     

Target extraction in forward-looking infrared images using fuzzy thresholding via local region analysis

In this paper, a target extraction method in forward-looking infrared (FLIR) images based on fuzzy thresholding which used local characteristics, bi-modality and adjacency, is proposed. The bi-modality represents how a pixel is classified into a part of a target using distribution of pixel values in a local region, and the adjacency is a measure to represent how far each pixel is from the target region. Segmentation is processed by the following: First, membership values for each pixel are calculated using bi-modality and adjacency. Second, fuzzy thresholding is performed to extract the target from the background. Finally, we extract the precise target in the thresholded image by post-processing. To evaluate the performance of the proposed target extraction method, we compare the proposed method with other segmentation methods using various FLIR images. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has good segmentation performance.     

Small target detection using bilateral filter and temporal cross product in infrared images

We introduce a spatial and temporal target detection method using spatial bilateral filter (BF) and temporal cross product (TCP) of temporal pixels in infrared (IR) image sequences. At first, the TCP is presented to extract the characteristics of temporal pixels by using temporal profile in respective spatial coordinates of pixels. The TCP represents the cross product values by the gray level distance vector of a current temporal pixel and the adjacent temporal pixel, as well as the horizontal distance vector of the current temporal pixel and a temporal pixel corresponding to potential target center. The summation of TCP values of temporal pixels in spatial coordinates makes the temporal target image (TTI), which represents the temporal target information of temporal pixels in spatial coordinates. And then the proposed BF filter is used to extract the spatial target information. In order to predict background without targets, the proposed BF filter uses standard deviations obtained by an exponential mapping of the TCP value corresponding to the coordinate of a pixel processed spatially. The spatial target image (STI) is made by subtracting the predicted image from the original image. Thus, the spatial and temporal target image (STTI) is achieved by multiplying the STI and the TTI, and then targets finally are detected in STTI. In experimental result, the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves were computed experimentally to compare the objective performance. From the results, the proposed algorithm shows better discrimination of target and clutters and lower false alarm rates than the existing target detection methods.     

拉普拉斯约束低秩表示的高光谱图像异常检测

伴随高光谱图像的广泛使用,高光谱图像技术得到长足的发展,其中高光谱图像异常检测技术越发受到重视。为了解决传统高光谱图像异常检测技术的实用性和检测效果不佳的问题,提出一种新颖的低秩表示检测算法。对于高光谱图像,大部分背景像元均可以被少量主要的背景像元组合近似地表示,且它们的表示系数将会位于低秩的空间中。在剩下无法被主要背景像元表示的稀疏部分中存在着异常像元,则可以被检测算法提取出来。在低秩表示中,背景像元字典的构建将会影响高光谱图像中背景像元的表示。如直接从现有高光谱图像中提取背景像元构建字典,会导致异常像元对背景像元字典的污染。而利用待检测高光谱图像观测数据和由光谱组成原理可合成的潜在未观测数据来构建背景像元字典,提取出背景像元的主要特征,有利于更好地分离出稀疏异常像元的信息。并且高光谱图像数据存在高维几何结构特点,通过引入拉普拉斯矩阵来约束空间中局部相似的像元对于待检测像元的表示作用,获得更接近于真实的表示系数。实验结果分别在仿真数据和真实数据上验证,与传统方法相比,提出的方法通过有效地突出异常像元提高了检出率和抑制了背景像元,降低了误检率。     

一种新的空谱联合探测高光谱影像目标探测算法

高光谱遥感影像不但具有高分辨率的空间信息还包含连续的光谱信息,因此在目标探测领域具有独特的应用优势。传统的高光谱遥感影像目标探测侧重于光谱信息的应用,形成了确定性算法和统计学算法。确定性算法通过计算目标光谱与待检测光谱之间的距离来查找目标,不能检测亚像素目标,而且容易受到噪声的影响;统计学目标检测计算背景统计特性,通过探测异常点来检测目标,可以检测亚像素目标和小目标,但容易受到目标尺寸的影响,不能很好的检测大目标。随着高光谱遥感影像的空间分辨率的增加,探测目标已有亚像素目标逐步转换为单像素及多像素目标,此时,在高光谱图像中,相同类别的地物在空间分布上呈现聚类特性, 因此,在利用高光谱遥感影像进行目标探测时,需要将其空间信息融入算法中。将空间特征引入传统目标探测算法。提出了一种新的空谱结合的高光谱目标探测算法,将传统的基于统计的目标探测算子与空域邻域聚类算法相结合,首先利用目标探测算子将影像划分为潜在目标区域与背景区域;通过计算潜在目标区域的质心,以质心为中心进行邻域聚类,剔除潜在目标区域中的背景区域,通过迭代计算获取最终目标探测结果。传统的基于统计的目标探测算子,将整个探测区域定义为背景区域,实现对背景区域的统计特征提取,而该方法将背景区域与潜在目标区域分离,剔除了目标区域对背景区域的统计干扰。将本算子与传统的约束能量最小化算子和自适应余弦探测算子进行分析比较可知,该算子的大目标探测性能优于传统的统计算子。     

纹理分析在红外目标识别中的应用

若背景有雾时，红外图像中的目标会受到影响而变得比较模糊。雾的纹理是一种比较典型的自然纹理，利用灰度共生矩阵提取纹理特征图像的方法，对雾天获取的红外图像进行分析。通过实验证明了该方法对红外图像中（背景有雾时）目标的提取和识别有积极的作用。     

Target extraction of banded blurred infrared images by immune dynamical algorithm with two-dimensional minimum distance immune field

Banded blurred Infrared image segmentation is a challenging topic since banded blurred infrared images are characterized by high noise, low contrast, and weak edges. Based on the interconnected and networked collaborative mechanism between innate immune factors and adaptive immune factors, this paper presents an immune dynamical algorithm with two-dimensional minimum distance immune field to solve this puzzle. Firstly, using the original characteristics as antigen surface molecular patterns, innate immune factors in the first layer of immune dynamical network extract banded blurred regions from the whole banded blurred infrared image region. Secondly, innate immune factors in the second layer of immune dynamical network extract new characteristics to design the complex of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and antigen peptide. Lastly, adaptive immune factors in the last layer will extract object and background antigens from all the banded blurred image antigens, and design the optimal immune field of every adaptive immune factors. Experimental results on hand trace infrared images verified that the proposed algorithm could efficiently extract targets from images, and produce better extraction accuracy.     

Detection of infrared small target based on fusion of multi-filters北大核心CSCD

Aiming at solving accuracy problem of infrared small target detection in sky and ocean background scenarios of infrared image sequences, a novel infrared small target detection based on multi-filters algorithm fusion method is presented in this paper. Firstly infrared small target and imaging, time and space characteristics of the corresponding background noise are analyzed. Tophat algorithm with improved Robinson guard filter are then integrated to highlight target and suppress clutter background by using infrared small target imaging features. Adaptive threshold segmentation is used to extract candidate targets, while Unger smoothing filter and multi-objects association filter are used to eliminate random noise and false targets in the candidate targets. Multiple experiments of infrared small target image sequences are implemented, and experimental results show that proposed method can detect infrared small targets at 99% detection rate with high reliability and good real-time performance. © 2017, Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Optics. All right reserved.     

基于PDE的前视红外成像舰船目标检测

针对复杂环境下的海面目标提取问题,提出一种基于偏微分方程（PDE）的红外舰船检测算法。首先采用基于PDE理论的滤波模型对初始图像滤噪并进行背景估计,然后结合邻域差分进行背景抑制后分割提取目标。实验表明,该算法能够有效检测强杂波背景中的目标,方法适应性强。     

基于多帧背景的泄漏气体自适应匹配滤波检测

被动傅里叶变换红外(FTIR)扫描遥测成像系统采集的红外高光谱图像具有空间、光谱等维度信息,可被用于大气环境中有毒有害气体的识别、定量及可视化。该系统具有光谱分辨率高、非接触式及远距离探测等优点,然而其单帧图像的像元数量少且部分存在气体吸收或发射特征,无法直接用于红外高光谱图像的目标检测。提出了基于多帧背景的泄漏气体自适应匹配滤波(AMF)检测方法,以短时间内、同一区域的多帧红外高光谱图像为基础,筛选出无目标气体特征的背景光谱并计算探测区域的背景最大似然估计,应用于后续帧的目标气体泄漏检测。红外高光谱图像来自于SF₆气体的遥测实验,共扫描四帧（120像元/帧）,去除前三帧内含有目标气体特征的像元光谱,剩余背景光谱被用于计算背景的最大似然估计,第四帧红外高光谱图像逐像元对SF₆气体进行的AMF检测,并与非线性最小二乘法反演的SF₆柱浓度图像比对,结果表明AMF检测高值与柱浓度高值有较强的相关性。为验证多帧背景在不同空间检测方法下的性能,分别对该帧数据进行了基于正交子空间的自适应子空间检测(ASD)、基于混合空间的自适应余弦检测(ACE)及基于斜子空间的最大似然比检测(OGLRT),并分别与SF₆柱浓度图像比对,结果表明多帧背景适用于不同空间的检测方法。此外,为验证存在目标气体吸收特征的非背景光谱对背景空间的影响,向背景空间中加入多条含有SF₆气体吸收特征的光谱,通过ROC曲线检验,结果表明背景空间中混入目标气体特征会降低AMF方法的检测性能。AMF检测值的假彩色图像也能应用于被动FTIR扫描遥测成像系统,相较于柱浓度假彩色图像,泄漏源及扩散趋势更为明显。基于红外高光谱图像的检测方法依赖于整体背景的统计特性,相较于单像元光谱波段的反演算法,极大地降低了背景的依赖性。多帧背景下的AMF泄漏气体检测方法能很好地应用于被动FTIR扫描遥测成像系统上并满足在线监测要求。     

Fusion of visible and infrared images using saliency analysis and detail preserving based image decomposition

Image fusion for visible and infrared images is a significant task in image analysis. The target regions in infrared image and abundant detail information in visible image should be both extracted into the fused result. Thus, one should preserve or even enhance the details from original images in fusion process. In this paper, an algorithm using pixel value based saliency detection and detail preserving based image decomposition is proposed. Firstly, the multi-scale decomposition is constructed using weighted least squares filter for original infrared and visible images. Secondly, the pixel value based saliency map is designed and utilized for image fusion in different decomposition level. Finally, the fusion result is reconstructed by synthesizing different scales with synthetic weights. Since the information of original signals can be well preserved and enhanced with saliency extraction and multi scale decomposition process, the fusion algorithm performs robustly and excellently. The proposed approach is compared with other state-of the-art methods on several image sets to verify the effectiveness and robustness.     

基于LLE的红外成像彩色化处理算法研究

针对红外图像对比度低、细节较差,且一般是黑白图像,不适宜于人眼观察,提出一种利用局部线性映射方法（LLE）的红外成像彩色化方法。该方法寻求灰度空间到色彩空间的映射,实现红外图像到彩色红外图像的转变,先将目标红外图像和彩色模板图像转换至YUV颜色空间,分离亮度和色彩信息;然后将目标红外图像的每个像素及邻域像素的灰度值串接成矢量,并均匀从彩色模板图像选取部分像素按相同方法串接成矢量,采用欧氏距离搜索最近邻并计算最佳的匹配系数,经色彩值（即U和V分量）计算将模板图像的彩色传递给目标红外图像后搜索亮度最大值的像素邻域并经自动阈值伪彩色编码处理,突出显示重要目标,得到处理后的彩色红外图像。将算法应用于实验室自主开发的热像仪,算法作用后的红外图像不但有了适于人眼视觉的彩色信息,而且用红、黄等敏感色突出了重点热目标,提高了人眼发现和识别目标的速度,实验结果表明,算法有利于侦察人员长时间的目标观察和识别目标。     

INFRARED SMALL TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHM BASED ON SELF-ADAPTIVE BACKGROUND FORECAST

A background forecast filter is presented to detect a small target under an infrared (IR) nature scene. By calculating the correlation of image pixels, the background around the small target could be forecasted. Subtracting the forecast background from original scene, the small targets would become outstanding. Experimental results show that the algorithm proposed has better performance with respect to probability of detection and less computation complexity.     

选择性集成学习方法提取超声心动图的心内膜

针对超声心动图特点,提出了一种选择性集成学习方法心内膜提取算法。先在超声心动图中根据形状先验知识确定感兴趣区域(ROI);然后对ROI中的每个候选像素点,提取多个不同性质的特征参数;将其输入选择性集成学习算法,得到模糊分类结果;最后将分类结果作为活动轮廓算法的外能,进一步获得光滑完整的心内膜边缘。对超声心动图分别采用本文方法和其他边缘提取方法进行比较实验。结果表明,相对于传统活动轮廓模型,本文方法分割图像的最小距离绝对差减少了2.56个像素点,面积重叠百分比提高了17.80%。可见,本文方法对噪声和初始轮廓不敏感,提取的心内膜边缘与医生手工勾画边缘最接近,性能优于现有算法。      

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.     

一种新的红外成像末制导目标跟踪方法

为了稳定跟踪导弹末制导阶段的红外目标,提出了一种基于尺度不变特征变换的红外目标跟踪算法.尺度不变性特征变换所提取的图像纹理特征具有尺度和旋转不变性,跟踪算法分别提取目标模板和待跟踪图像的尺度不变特征变换特征.根据最小欧氏距离准则提取目标模板与待跟踪图像间相匹配的尺度不变特征变换特征点对,利用该特征点对拟合反映两图像间映射关系的仿射模型,并据此估计目标中心位置及调整目标模板尺寸.仿真结果表明,跟踪算法能够较好地实现在导弹末制导阶段对红外地面杂波背景下目标的稳定跟踪,其跟踪准确度和稳定度优于传统方法.
关键词:末制导跟踪|尺度不变性特征变换|特征匹配|仿射模型     

Morphological center operator for enhancing small target obtained by infrared imaging sensor

Infrared small target in image obtained by infrared imaging sensor is usually different from the surrounding regions, which is the important region in infrared image for different applications. However, the infrared small target is dim and embedded in clutter background, which makes the small target difficult to be detected or recognized. So, it is important to enhance infrared small target. Morphological center operator could smooth important image features, which may be well used for infrared small target enhancement. To well enhance infrared small target, a morphological center operator based method is proposed. The morphological center operator is specified to suppress most of the background of the infrared image through the strategy of feature extraction. Then, the infrared small target is well enhanced. Experimental results show that, the proposed method performs well for enhancing infrared small target and the performance is better than some other methods. So, the proposed method could further improve the performance of infrared imaging sensor.     

基于小波变换的红外热波无损检测融合算法

在红外热波无损检测中获取的热像序列存在着背景噪声大、缺陷边缘模糊、对比度低等特点。为了提高由红外热像序列重构的数字图像的缺陷显示能力,以小波变换为热像处理工具,采用基于像素级和特征级的图像融合算法对热像序列进行了处理,并采用基于统计学的图像评估标准对处理效果作了定量评价。通过对铝合金试件的检测实验说明该方法可用于材料内部缺陷的红外热波无损检测。研究结果表明,此种图像融合算法可对不同深度缺陷所对应的两幅最佳热像进行有效地融合,在一幅融合图像中直观地反映出全部缺陷,并能有效地减少加热不均和背景噪声对缺陷识别的不利影响。     

一种改进的红外图像归一化互相关匹配算法

分析了传统归一化互相关算法在红外空中目标匹配定位时失效的原因,提出一种改进的红外图像归一化互相关匹配算法.该方法将模板和匹配区域之间的纹理相关计算看作一个最优化问题,寻求使图像纹理相关匹配鲁棒性最好的相关基准值,用图像的相关基准函数替代传统方法中的区域均值部分,构造了一种适用于的红外目标匹配的归一化相关算法.实验结果表明,该相关匹配算法对模板中背景部分的变化和非均匀性亮度变化有良好的抗干扰能力,较好地解决了恶劣环境下红外对空目标跟踪中匹配定位出错的问题.