Industrial applications of fuzzy systems
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 1
Fusion of Intelligent Agents for the Detection of Aircraft in SAR Images
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Research Directions in the KES Centre
RSCTC '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing
Object separation by polarimetric and spectral imagery fusion
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Landmines recognition system using thermovision techniques
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
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Knowledge based techniques have been used to automatically detect surface land mines present in thermal and multispectral images. Polarization-sensitive infrared sensing is used to highlight the polarization signature of man-made targets such as land mines over natural features in the image. Processing the thermal polarization images using a background-discrimination algorithm, we were able to successfully identify eight of the nine man-made targets, three of which were mines, with only three false targets. A digital camera is used to collect a number of multispectral bands of the test mine area containing three surface land mines with natural and man-made clutter. Using a supervised and unsupervised neural network technique on the textural and spectral characteristics of selected multispectral bands (using a genetic algorithm tool), we successfully identified the three surface mines but obtained numerous false targets with varying degrees of accuracy. Finally, to further improve our detection of land mines, we use a fuzzy rule-based fusion technique on the processed polarization resolved image together with the output results of the two best classifiers. Fuzzy rule-based fusion identified the locations of all three land mines and reduced the number of false alarms from seven (as obtained by the polarization resolved image) to two. Additional experiments on several other images have also produced favorable results at this early stage in testing the algorithm and comparing it with an existing commercial system