This paper describes algorithms for detecting and classifying objects such as tanks and trucks in forward-looking infrared (FLIR) imagery.It summarizes research conducted in the course of a two-year project in the areas of image modeling, pre-and post-processing, segmentation, feature extraction, and classification.
Image modelsThe work on image modeling conducted under this project was concentrated in three main areas:i) Modeling of the joint (gray level, edge value) statistics of FLIR scenes, as a basis for defining threshold selection techniques.2) Modeling of thresholding and edge detection responses to background regions, as a basis for predicting false alarm