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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2014.17.8.923

A study on enhancement of heterogeneous noisy image quality for the performance improvement of target detection and tracking  

Kim, Y. (Combat System R&D Lab., LIG Nex1)
Yoo, P.H. (Combat System R&D Lab., LIG Nex1)
Kim, D.S. (Combat System R&D Lab., LIG Nex1)
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society / v.17, no.8, 2014 , pp. 923-936 More about this Journal
Abstract
Images can be contaminated with different types of noise, for different reasons. The neighborhood averaging and smoothing by image averaging are the classical image processing techniques for noise removal. The classical spatial filtering refers to the aggregate of pixels composing an image and operating directly on these pixels. To reduce or remove effectively noise in image sequences, it usually needs to use noise reduction filter based on space or time domain such as method of spatial or temporal filter. However, the method of spatial filter can generally cause that signals of objects as the target are also blurred. In this paper, we propose temporal filter using the piece-wise quadratic function model and enhancement algorithm of image quality for the performance improvement of target detection and tracking by heterogeneous noise reduction. Image tracking simulation that utilizes real IIR(Imaging Infra-Red) images is employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed image processing algorithm.
Keywords
Noise Reduction; Spatial Filter; Temporal Filter; Resolution Enhancement; Image Sharpening;
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