Image processing techniques of landmines: a review

There are mainly two types of landmines which kill or maim people around the world, are anti-tank mine (ATM) and anti-personnel mine (APM). Much research effort has been devoted in trying to detect and remove APM, because APM is much smaller than ATM and is more difficult to detect. Some of the common mine detection techniques include using sensors, signal processing, image processing and decision processes. In this paper we review the signal processing, image processing and decision processes technique to detect or locate a mine and discuss the possible future techniques.