Small Infrared Target Detection via a Mexican-Hat Distribution

Author:

Zhang YuboORCID,Zheng Liying,Zhang Yanbo

Abstract

Although infrared small target detection has been broadly used in airborne early warning, infrared guidance, surveillance and tracking, it is still an open issue due to the low signal-to-noise ratio, less texture information, background clutters, and so on. Aiming to detect a small target in an infrared image with complex background clutters, this paper carefully studies the characteristics of a target in an IR image filtered by the difference of Gaussian filter, concluding that the intensity of the adjacent region around a small infrared target roughly has a Mexican-hat distribution. Based on such a conclusion, a raw infrared image is sequentially processed with the modified top-hat transformation and the difference of Gaussian filter. Then, the adjacent region around each pixel in the processed image is radially divided into three sub-regions. Next, the pixels that distribute as the Mexican-hat are determined as the candidates of targets. Finally, a real small target is segmented out by locating the pixel with the maximum intensity. Our experimental results on both real-world and synthetic infrared images show that the proposed method is so effective in enhancing small targets that target detection gets very easy. Our method achieves true detection rates of 0.9900 and 0.9688 for sequence 1 and sequence 2, respectively, and the false detection rates of 0.0100 and 0 for those two sequences, which are superior over both conventional detectors and state-of-the-art detectors. Moreover, our method runs at 1.8527 and 0.8690 s per frame for sequence 1 and sequence 2, respectively, which is faster than RLCM, LIG, Max–Median, Max–Mean.

Funder

the National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science

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