Automatic Ship's Position Fixing by Matching between Radar Images and Simulation Images

Robust Automatic Feature Detection and Matching Between Multiple Images

Parallel Matching of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images

This paper presents an MPI-parallelized version of a matching algorithm for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. First the necessity for automated matching and the chosen algorithm are outlined briefly, and the algorithmic structure and the applied parallelization strategy are then presented and discussed. Performance results on a Cray T3D and a PowerChallenge from SGI are given, showing unex...

Automatic detection of liver tumor motion by fluoroscopy images

Background: A method to track liver tumor motion signals from fluoroscopic images without any implanted gold fiducial markers was proposed in this study to overcome the adverse effects on precise tumor irradiation caused by respiratory movement. Materials and Methods: The method was based on the following idea: (i) Before treatment, a series of fluoroscopic images corresponding to different bre...

Automatic classification of ships from infrared (FLIR) images

The aim of the research presented in this paper is to find out whether automatic classification of ships from Forward Looking InfraRed (FLIR) images is feasible in maritime patrol aircraft. An image processing system has been developed for this task. It includes iterative shading correction and a top hat filter for the detection of the ship. It uses a segmentation algorithm based on the gray va...

Classification of polarimetric radar images based on SVM and BGSA

Classification of land cover is one of the most important applications of radar polarimetry images. The purpose of image classification is to classify image pixels into different classes based on vector properties of the extractor. Radar imaging systems provide useful information about ground cover by using a wide range of electromagnetic waves to image the Earthchr('39')s surface. The purpose ...