Image enhancement optimization for hand-luggage screening at airports

  • Authors:
  • Maneesha Singh;Sameer Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • ATR Lab, Research School of Informatics, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, UK;ATR Lab, Research School of Informatics, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICAPR'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Image enhancement is very important for increasing the sensitivity of screening luggage performance at airports. On the basis of 11 statistical measures of image viewability we propose a novel approach to optimizing the choice of image enhancement tools. We propose a neural network predictor that can be used for predicting, on a given test image, the best image enhancement algorithm for it. The network is trained using a number of image examples. The input to the neural network is a set of viewability measures and its output is the choice of enhancement algorithm for that image. On a number of test images we show that such a predictive system is highly capable in forecasting the correct choice of enhancement algorithms (as judged by human experts). We compare our predictive system against a baseline approach that uses a fixed enhancement algorithm for all batch test images, and find the proposed model to be substantially superior.