Vehicle Target Recognition Method Based on Visible and Infrared Image Fusion Using Bayesian Inference

Abstract

The accuracy of single-mode optical imaging systems for vehicle target recognition is limited by external ambient illumination or imaging equipment resolution. In this paper, a vehicle target recognition method based on visible and infrared image fusion using Bayesian inference is proposed. Based on the significance area detection combined with Spectral Residual (SR) and EdgeBox algorithms, the target area is marked on the visible light image, and the maximum between-class variance method and GrabCut algorithm are used to segment vehicle targets in marked images. The open operation filter is employed to extract the vehicle target features in the infrared image, and the fusion result of the visible light image and the infrared image is obtained by introducing the Intersection Over Union (IOU), and as the parameter of Bayesian inference, the class and attribute of the parameter are defined and substituted into the established naive Bayesian classification model, and the probability of the class is calculated to determine whether the vehicle target is recognized. Experiments under different test conditions were carried out, and the experimental results were as follows: the accuracy of image target recognition reached 77% when the vehicle target was not occluded; when the vehicle target was partially occluded, the accuracy of image target recognition reached 74%; the results verified that the proposed method can recognize vehicle targets in different scenarios.