In order to improve the accuracy of pixel coupled infrared polarization imaging system, based on the analysis of the characteristics of blind elements, a blind element detection and correction method based on the nearest neighbor parameter is proposed. Blind elements are detected by two-way derivative operation in Stokes vector, the concepts of nearest neighbor and reference polarization pixel are introduced, and the identification methods of fixed blind elements, random blind elements and point targets are classified. According to the polarization parameter distribution in the neighborhood of the blind element, the blind element correction is realized. The experimental results show that this method can effectively improve the acquisition ability of polarization information of incident light, reduce the system error, and improve the detection accuracy of the pixel coupled polarization imaging system.
As the traditional color fusion method based on color transfer algorithm has an issue that the color of target and background is similar. A kind of infrared polarization image color fusion method based on color contrast enhancement was proposed. Firstly the infrared radiation intensity image and the polarization image were color fused, and then color transfer technology was used between color reference image and initial fused image in the YCbCr color space. Secondly Otsu segmentation method was used to extract the target area image from infrared polarization image. Lastly the H,S,I component of the color fusion image which obtained by color transfer was adjusted to obtain the final fused image by using target area in the HSI space. Experimental results show that, the fused result which obtained by the proposed method is rich in detail and makes the contrast of target and background more outstanding. And then the ability of target detection and identification can be improved by the method.
Along with modern infrared camouflage technique developed, it is hard to distinguish target and background by using traditional infrared intensity imaging in general because infrared feature of target and background are tending to consistent. To address this issue, a thought that utilizes infrared polarization imaging technique to detect target is proposed in this paper based on analyzing of the principle of infrared polarization imaging. The experiments are carried out for detecting of infrared low-contrast target imaging. Comparing with the infrared intensity images, the average gradient of the infrared polarization image has been improved 155% and the contrast of target and background has been improved 120% in infrared polarization images. The effective experimental data and imaging law between infrared polarization images and infrared intensity images are obtained that, the technology of infrared polarization imaging can detect details of infrared target more clearly than the infrared intensity imaging, and it can obviously increase the contrast between target and background. Therefore, it is more helpful to detecting details and features of target.
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