Application of Advanced Background Subtraction Techniques for the Detection of Buried Plastic Landmines
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Landmine problem is enormous and worldwide. Impulse ground penetrating radar (ImGPR) is one of the technologies that have been extensively researched as a means of improving landmine detection efficiency. We propose two methods to detect buried landmines. Both methods are based on background subtraction techniques to detect buried plastic landmines. The first method uses adaptive background estimation and the second method uses multilayer electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation modeling based background estimation. Measurements of radar data were used to validate the proposed techniques. These techniques are compared with the existing background subtraction methods and the proposed techniques showed their dominance. Keywords— Background subtraction, GPR, ground modelling, landmine detection, target estimation.
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