An efficient method for target extraction of infrared images

Ying Li, Xingjin Mao

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Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient method to extract targets from an infrared image. First, the regions of interests (ROIs) which contain the entire targets and a little background region are detected based on the variance weighted information entropy feature. Second, the infrared image is modeled by Gaussian Markov random field, and the ROIs are used as the target regions while the remaining region as the background to perform the initial segmentation. Finally, by searching solution space within the ROIs, the targets are accurately extracted by energy minimization using the iterated condition mode. Because the iterated segmentation results are updated within the ROIs only, this coarse-to-fine extraction method can greatly accelerate the convergence speed and efficiently reduce the interference of background noise. Experimental results of the real infrared images demonstrate that the proposed method can extract single and multiple infrared objects accurately and rapidly.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence - International Conference, AICI 2010, Proceedings
Pages185-192
Number of pages8
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, AICI 2010 - Sanya, China
Duration: 23 Oct 201024 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume6319 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, AICI 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySanya
Period23/10/1024/10/10

Keywords

  • infrared image segmentation
  • iterated condition mode
  • Markov random field
  • regions of interests
  • weighted information entropy

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