Infrared small target enhancement by using sequential top-hat filters

Jianjun Zhou; Haoyin Lv; Fugen Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.2072159

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24 November 2014 Infrared small target enhancement by using sequential top-hat filters

Jianjun Zhou; Haoyin Lv; Fugen Zhou

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Proceedings Volume 9301, International Symposium on Optoelectronic Technology and Application 2014: Image Processing and Pattern Recognition; 93011L (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2072159
Event: International Symposium on Optoelectronic Technology and Application 2014, 2014, Beijing, China

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Generally in the infrared images, the targets have low contrast with the background, which makes the detection of the small targets difficult. To improve the detectability of the infrared small targets, this paper presents a novel algorithm for infrared small target enhancement by using sequential top-hat filters. Moreover, the proposed algorithm has been compared with several existing algorithms. The experimental results indicate that sequential top-hat filters could well enhance the infrared small targets and effectively suppress the background clutters.

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Jianjun Zhou, Haoyin Lv, and Fugen Zhou "Infrared small target enhancement by using sequential top-hat filters", Proc. SPIE 9301, International Symposium on Optoelectronic Technology and Application 2014: Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 93011L (24 November 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2072159

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