Two-stage segmentation for detection of suspicious objects in aerial and long-range surveillance applications

  • Authors:
  • Vladan Papic;Hrvoje Turic;Hrvoje Dujmic

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of polytechnics, University of Split, Croatia;Department of polytechnics, University of Split, Croatia;Department of electronics, University of Split, Croatia

  • Venue:
  • ICAI'09 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Automation & information
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel two-stage data segmentation approach for detection of artificial materials and objects in non-urban terrain. High resolution image of the unknown terrain taken with the digital camera from relatively large distance is divided into smaller sub-images for further processing. Each sub-image is segmented and information about obtained cluster centers is transferred to the next stage. Second segmentation stage uses information about cluster centers from all sub-images and applies the same clustering method to this data set. Finally, decision-making module evaluates all potential candidate segments and eventually proposes segments that have high possibility of presenting artificial material or object in the input image.