DocumentCode
1231661
Title
Wavelet-watershed automatic infrared image segmentation method
Author
Neves, S.R. ; Silva, E. A B da ; Mendonca, G.V.
Author_Institution
Grupo de Guerra Eletronica, Inst. de Pesquisas da Marinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Volume
39
Issue
12
fYear
2003
fDate
6/12/2003 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
903
Lastpage
904
Abstract
A novel approach for infrared image segmentation with applications to ship surveillance and classification is presented. It employs a watershed transformation using a marker that combines wavelet transform modulus maxima with morphological techniques. This approach is totally automatic and has many advantages compared with the traditional methods, such as its ability to extract objects beyond or below the environment temperature, robustness to noise inherent to infrared images, as well as a solution of the horizon problem.
Keywords
feature extraction; image classification; image segmentation; infrared imaging; ships; surveillance; wavelet transforms; automatic IR image segmentation method; horizon problem; infrared image segmentation method; marker extraction; morphological techniques; ship classification; ship surveillance; watershed transformation; wavelet transform modulus maxima; wavelet-watershed IR image segmentation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20030617
Filename
1209484
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