• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 51, Issue 3, 20210798 (2022)
Dezhen Yang1、2, Songlin Yu1, and Jinjun Feng2
Author Affiliations
  • 1North China Research Institute of Electro-optics, Beijing 100015, China
  • 2Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute, Beijing 100015, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20210798 Cite this Article
    Dezhen Yang, Songlin Yu, Jinjun Feng. Dynamic real-time restoration algorithm of defective pixels based on spatio-temporal statistics feature[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(3): 20210798 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Restricted by the technology and material of infrared focal plane array (IRFPA), the infrared detector inevitably had some defective pixel such as blind pixel and flick pixel. The gray distribution and scale of blind flick pixel and infrared point target are consistent, which is easy to cause false alarm and missed detection of remote infrared detection system. Therefore, a dynamic real-time defect repair algorithm based on spatio-temporal statistical characteristics for infrared point target detection was proposed. Based on the indepth analysis of defect pixel, a spatial extreme value filter operator was constructed to extract the current frame feature mask, accumulate the historical mask value in the time domain, and make multi-dimensional judgment in combination with probability dynamic statistics. And the image pyramid was introduced to extract blind pixel, flick pixel and defect pixel clusters. Finally, the defect elements were eliminated by multi-scale median filter. The experiment takes DDR3 as off chip storage for FPGA hardware transplantation. The results show that the proposed algorithm cound be applied to all kinds of scenes requiring point target detection, dynamically update and repair new defective pixels, low computational complexity, strong real-time performance, the defect rate was reduced from 6 ‰ to 0.046 ‰, and the detection accuracy reached 98%.
    Dezhen Yang, Songlin Yu, Jinjun Feng. Dynamic real-time restoration algorithm of defective pixels based on spatio-temporal statistics feature[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(3): 20210798
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