Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Morphological Feature Extraction

Mingjing Zhao, Lu Li*, Wei Li, Liwei Li, Wenjuan Zhang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Infrared (IR) small target detection of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a very meaningful and challenging subject in detecting and tracking system. Therefore, an effective method is proposed in this paper. First of all, a morphological feature extraction method is used to reconstruct a new image that the small target is disappeared, then the original image and the reconstruction image are made difference as preprocessed image. In this way, important spatial information can be extracted well in IR image. Then, a low-rank and sparse decomposition method is employed to obtain the background image and the target image respectively, the target separation can be enhanced and the background clutter can be suppressed simultaneously. Finally, the obtained target image is segmented by a simple adaptive segmentation method. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method is of great improvement compared with several existing methods, what's more, it can achieve the highest SNR among these methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1398-1401
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538691540
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019
Event39th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 28 Jul 20192 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Conference

Conference39th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period28/07/192/08/19

Keywords

  • Infrared (IR) Image
  • Morphology Feature Extraction
  • Sparse and Low-rank Decomposition
  • Target Detection

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