Recent advances in visual and infrared face recognition—a review

SG Kong, J Heo, BR Abidi, J Paik, MA Abidi - Computer vision and image …, 2005 - Elsevier
Face recognition is a rapidly growing research area due to increasing demands for security
in commercial and law enforcement applications. This paper provides an up-to-date review …

A local contrast method for small infrared target detection

CLP Chen, H Li, Y Wei, T **a… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust small target detection of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is very important in infrared
search and track applications for self-defense or attacks. Consequently, an effective small …

Derivative entropy-based contrast measure for infrared small-target detection

X Bai, Y Bi - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust and effective detection of small target and false alarm (FA) suppression are the key
techniques in infrared search and track systems. In this paper, the derivative entropy-based …

Maritime traffic monitoring based on vessel detection, tracking, state estimation, and trajectory prediction

LP Perera, P Oliveira, CG Soares - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maneuvering vessel detection and tracking (VDT), incorporated with state estimation and
trajectory prediction, are important tasks for vessel navigational systems (VNSs), as well as …

Infrared small-target detection using multiscale gray difference weighted image entropy

H Deng, X Sun, M Liu, C Ye… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an effective small-target detection approach based on weighted image entropy.
The approach weights the local entropy measure by the multiscale grayscale difference …

Fast and robust small infrared target detection using absolute directional mean difference algorithm

S Moradi, P Moallem, MF Sabahi - Signal Processing, 2020 - Elsevier
Infrared small target detection in an infrared search and track (IRST) system is a challenging
task. This situation becomes more complicated when high gray-intensity structural …

A general active-learning framework for on-road vehicle recognition and tracking

S Sivaraman, MM Trivedi - IEEE Transactions on intelligent …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a general active-learning framework for robust on-road vehicle
recognition and tracking. This framework takes a novel active-learning approach to building …

Dim infrared image enhancement based on convolutional neural network

Z Fan, D Bi, L **ong, S Ma, L He, W Ding - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Long-range infrared images are always suffering from dim targets and background clutters.
To improve the contrast between target and background, we propose a novel infrared image …

Survey on dim small target detection in clutter background: wavelet, inter-frame and filter based algorithms

X Bai, S Zhang, B Du, Z Liu, T **, B Xue, F Zhou - Procedia Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
Dim small target is an active and important research area in image processing and pattern
recognition. Various algorithms have been proposed to detect and track dim small target …

Infrared small target detection based on flux density and direction diversity in gradient vector field

D Liu, L Cao, Z Li, T Liu, P Che - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The existing small target detection methods may suffer serious false alarm rate and low
probability of detection in the situation of intricate background clutter. To cope with this …