Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
4-2015
Publication Source
Proceedings of SPIE 9477, Optical Pattern Recognition XXVI
Abstract
Thermal images are exploited in many areas of pattern recognition applications. Infrared thermal image segmentation can be used for object detection by extracting regions of abnormal temperatures. However, the lack of texture and color information, low signal-to-noise ratio, and blurring effect of thermal images make segmenting infrared heat patterns a challenging task. Furthermore, many segmentation methods that are used in visible imagery may not be suitable for segmenting thermal imagery mainly due to their dissimilar intensity distributions.
Thus, a new method is proposed to improve the performance of image segmentation in thermal imagery. The proposed scheme efficiently utilizes nonlinear intensity enhancement technique and Unsupervised Active Contour Models (UACM). The nonlinear intensity enhancement improves visual quality by combining dynamic range compression and contrast enhancement, while the UACM incorporates active contour evolutional function and neural networks.
The algorithm is tested on segmenting different objects in thermal images and it is observed that the nonlinear enhancement has significantly improved the segmentation performance.
Inclusive pages
94770C-1 to 94770C-12
ISBN/ISSN
0277-786X
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2015, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper is prohibited.
Publisher
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD
Volume
9477
eCommons Citation
Albalooshi, Fatema; Krieger, Evan; Sidike, Paheding; and Asari, Vijayan K., "Efficient Thermal Image Segmentation through Integration of Nonlinear Enhancement with Unsupervised Active Contour Model" (2015). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications. 388.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ece_fac_pub/388
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Commons, Numerical Analysis and Computation Commons, Theory and Algorithms Commons
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2179199