Image Segmentation for Target Aircraft Detection

Abstract

A two stage method is presented for segmenting digitized images into aircraft and background. The approximate aircraft position is determined from the edge distribution and then each pixel within this region is classified by statistical comparison with the closest local region outside the search area. Keywords: Australia; Image processing; Target recognition; Missile simulators; Rapier anti aircraft system; Digital simulation; Anti aircraft missiles; Image acquisition; Preprocessing; Pixel description.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA221280

Entities

People

  • J. Sandor
  • R. C. Creek

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircraft Detection
  • Aircrafts
  • Australia
  • Change Detection
  • Classification
  • Cross Correlation
  • Detection
  • Digital Images
  • Image Processing
  • Image Segmentation
  • Information Processing
  • Recognition
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Spatial Distribution
  • Target Recognition

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Missile Defense Systems.