• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 46, Issue 6, 604005 (2017)
Qi Nannan1、2、*, Jiang Pengfei3, Li Yansheng3, and Tan Yihua1、3
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    DOI: 10.3788/irla201746.0604005 Cite this Article
    Qi Nannan, Jiang Pengfei, Li Yansheng, Tan Yihua. Infrared vehicle detection based on visual saliency and target confidence[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2017, 46(6): 604005 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    An algorithm of infrared vehicle detection under the complex background was propose. First, a novel self-adaption piecewise linear stretching function was utilized to enhance the targets when the overall intensity of image was low. Second, the saliency map of the enhanced image was used to generate the ROIs of the potential targets. Then, the vehicle targets were able to be detected by the edge-based segmentation in ROIs using average gradient. Finally, multiple features were fused to discriminate the belief of a region belonging to a vehicle target. Experimental results on the real infrared images show that the algorithm can effectively detect the vehicle target on ground.
    Qi Nannan, Jiang Pengfei, Li Yansheng, Tan Yihua. Infrared vehicle detection based on visual saliency and target confidence[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2017, 46(6): 604005
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