Detection Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Emplacement Using Infrared Image

Author

Ghazali, Kamarul Hawari ; Jadin, Mohd Shawal

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Malaysia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

307

Lastpage

310

Abstract

This paper presents a method to detect an improvised explosive device (IED) by using infrared thermography (IRT) technology. The detection of IED will be done automatically and accurately even the IED detection expert is not present. Combining the advantage of IRT and image processing technique, the proposed method is very efficient and responsive to detect the existence of hidden IED. The captured images are filtered and segmented to extract the heat pattern before the decision is made. Based on the experimental result, the proposed system produced about 92 % of detection accuracy.

Keywords

explosive detection; feature extraction; image filtering; image segmentation; infrared imaging; military computing; IED detection; Infrared Image; heat pattern extraction; image filter; image processing technique; image segmentation; improvised explosive device detection; infrared thermography; Accuracy; Cameras; Data acquisition; Explosives; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; Noise; image segmentation; improvised explosive device; infrared imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim), 2014 UKSim-AMSS 16th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4923-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UKSim.2014.111

Filename

7046083