The small target detection based on maximum likelihood estimation and spot detection operator

Wang Hou; Gucan Long; Zhihui Lei; Jing Dong

doi:10.1117/12.2054032

21 February 2014 The small target detection based on maximum likelihood estimation and spot detection operator

Wang Hou, Gucan Long, Zhihui Lei, Jing Dong

Proceedings Volume 9142, Selected Papers from Conferences of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics: Optical Imaging, Remote Sensing, and Laser-Matter Interaction 2013; 914207 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054032
Event: Selected Proceedings of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee Conferences held July-December 2013, 2013, SuZhou, China

Abstract

In this paper, aiming at the small target detection problem in the infrared image sequence, we propose a small target detection method based on maximum likelihood estimation and NNLoG spot detection operator. Compared with the traditional method, our proposed method can partially solve the nonlinear motion of the small target in image sequence. The real target trajectory is approximated by polynomial to enhance the signal to noise ratio of target. To validate the proposed method, we create eight experiments to simulate. The experiment result shows that our method is very valuable for small target detection.

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Wang Hou, Gucan Long, Zhihui Lei, and Jing Dong "The small target detection based on maximum likelihood estimation and spot detection operator", Proc. SPIE 9142, Selected Papers from Conferences of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics: Optical Imaging, Remote Sensing, and Laser-Matter Interaction 2013, 914207 (21 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054032

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