Analysis of Infrared Signature Variation and Robust Filter-Based Supersonic Target Detection

The difficulty of small infrared target detection originates from the variations of infrared signatures. This paper presents the fundamental physics of infrared target variations and reports the results of variation analysis of infrared images acquired using a long wave infrared camera over a 24-hou...

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Main Authors: Sungho Kim, Sun-Gu Sun, Kyung-Tae Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/140930
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description The difficulty of small infrared target detection originates from the variations of infrared signatures. This paper presents the fundamental physics of infrared target variations and reports the results of variation analysis of infrared images acquired using a long wave infrared camera over a 24-hour period for different types of backgrounds. The detection parameters, such as signal-to-clutter ratio were compared according to the recording time, temperature and humidity. Through variation analysis, robust target detection methodologies are derived by controlling thresholds and designing a temporal contrast filter to achieve high detection rate and low false alarm rate. Experimental results validate the robustness of the proposed scheme by applying it to the synthetic and real infrared sequences.
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spelling doaj-art-d7cee97dec0044be91ceae6fa010b6302025-08-20T02:21:11ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal2356-61401537-744X2014-01-01201410.1155/2014/140930140930Analysis of Infrared Signature Variation and Robust Filter-Based Supersonic Target DetectionSungho Kim0Sun-Gu Sun1Kyung-Tae Kim2Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do 712-749, Republic of KoreaAgency for Defense Development, 111 Sunam-dong, Daejeon 305-152, Republic of KoreaElectromagnetic Technology Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of KoreaThe difficulty of small infrared target detection originates from the variations of infrared signatures. This paper presents the fundamental physics of infrared target variations and reports the results of variation analysis of infrared images acquired using a long wave infrared camera over a 24-hour period for different types of backgrounds. The detection parameters, such as signal-to-clutter ratio were compared according to the recording time, temperature and humidity. Through variation analysis, robust target detection methodologies are derived by controlling thresholds and designing a temporal contrast filter to achieve high detection rate and low false alarm rate. Experimental results validate the robustness of the proposed scheme by applying it to the synthetic and real infrared sequences.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/140930
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Analysis of Infrared Signature Variation and Robust Filter-Based Supersonic Target Detection
The Scientific World Journal
title Analysis of Infrared Signature Variation and Robust Filter-Based Supersonic Target Detection
title_full Analysis of Infrared Signature Variation and Robust Filter-Based Supersonic Target Detection
title_fullStr Analysis of Infrared Signature Variation and Robust Filter-Based Supersonic Target Detection
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of Infrared Signature Variation and Robust Filter-Based Supersonic Target Detection
title_short Analysis of Infrared Signature Variation and Robust Filter-Based Supersonic Target Detection
title_sort analysis of infrared signature variation and robust filter based supersonic target detection
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/140930
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