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Image Saliency Applied to Infrared Images for Unmanned Maritime Monitoring

verfasst von : Gonçalo Cruz, Alexandre Bernardino

Erschienen in: Computer Vision Systems

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper presents a method to detect boats and life rafts on long wave infrared (LWIR) images, captured by an aerial platform. The method applies the concept of image saliency to highlight distinct areas on the images. However saliency algorithms always highlight salient points in the image, even in the absence of targets. We propose a statistical method based on the saliency algorithm output to distinguish frames with or without targets. To evaluate the detection algorithm, we have equipped a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle with a LWIR camera and gathered a dataset with more than 44000 frames, containing several boats and a life raft. The proposed detection strategy demonstrates a good performance, specially, a low rate of false positives and low computational complexity.

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Metadaten
Titel
Image Saliency Applied to Infrared Images for Unmanned Maritime Monitoring
verfasst von
Gonçalo Cruz
Alexandre Bernardino
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20904-3_46

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