Title :
Fusion of visual and IR images for concealed weapon detection
Author :
Xue, Z. ; Blum, R.S. ; Li, Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
Abstract :
Image fusion for concealed weapon detection (CWD) using visual and IR images is studied. A large set of existing image fusion algorithms are identified and their performance is compared for the CWD application using quantitative and qualitative measures.
Keywords :
image processing; infrared detectors; police data processing; sensor fusion; weapons; concealed weapon detection; image fusion algorithms; qualitative measures; quantitative measures; visual/IR image fusion; Discrete wavelet transforms; Fuses; Image fusion; Infrared detectors; Law enforcement; Millimeter wave technology; Pixel; Principal component analysis; Terrorism; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Information Fusion, 2002. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Annapolis, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-9721844-1-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICIF.2002.1020949
