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Clutter Suppression Method Based on Spatiotemporal Anisotropic Diffusion for Moving Point Target Detection in IR Image Sequence

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This paper deals with the problem of moving point target detection against cluttered background in infrared image sequence. In this area, clutter suppression is a critical issue because of high false alarm rate caused by complicated clutter. Here the three-dimensional spatiotemporal anisotropic diffusion model, in which inter-frame diffusion takes place as well as intra-frame diffusion, is investigated and a moving point target detection method based on this model is presented with the hope of improvement of clutter suppression performance. The method is evaluated and the optimum values of its parameter on different conditions are found by comparative experiments. The image sequences used in the experiments are generated by using available real-world infrared images and simulated moving point targets. Experimental results show that the method performs well under cluttered situations and enhances the detectability of moving point targets.

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This work is partially supported by the Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60736010 and the Project of the National Defense Fundamental Research of China under Grant No.A1420080147. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and advices.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Multispectral Information Processing Technologies, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Xiechang Sun, Tianxu Zhang & Luxin Yan

  2. Institute for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Xiechang Sun, Tianxu Zhang & Luxin Yan

  3. Satellite Application System Department, China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), Beijing, 100086, China

    Meng Li

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Sun, X., Zhang, T., Yan, L. et al. Clutter Suppression Method Based on Spatiotemporal Anisotropic Diffusion for Moving Point Target Detection in IR Image Sequence. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 30, 496–512 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-009-9479-5

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