Target Detection and Classification Improvements using Contrast Enhanced 16-bit Infrared Videos

Using Morphological Filters for Pupil Detection in Infrared Videos

Face Detection in Low Light and Infrared videos and images

Face detection is an important preprocessing stage for automated facial recognition systems. Imaging in real world environment experience substantial variation in lighting and weather conditions. Surveillance systems are a typical example of real world imaging systems. Face detection is based upon typical haar like patterns appearing in facial images. Performance of even most successful face de...

Enhanced Road Security Using Edge Detection and Infrared Imagery

Edges are prominent features in images and their detection plays main role in computer vision and image processing. Identifying and Detecting the edges are a low level task in a variety of applications such as shape recognition, image compression, enhancement and restoration. The technique laid out aims to develop enhanced techniques for road safety. Road safety is a major issue and many lives ...

Target Detection Improvements in Hyperspectral Images by Adjusting Band Weights and Identifying end-members in Feature Space Clusters

          Spectral target detection could be regarded as one of the strategic applications of hyperspectral data analysis. The presence of targets in an area smaller than a pixel’s ground coverage has led to the development of spectral un-mixing methods to detect these types of targets. Usually, in the spectral un-mixing algorithms, the similar weights have been assumed for spectral bands. Howe...

Target Detection in Infrared Images Using Block-Based Approach

A novel and simple method for identification of targets in infrared (IR) images is proposed in this chapter. The input image is divided into blocks of fixed size. The saliency map is extracted block-wise in three different ways. In the first approach, the entropy of each block is compared with the global entropy of the image. In the second approach, the energy of each block is compared with the...