Date of Award
2016
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords
concealed weapon detection, Double Density Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transfrom, Gaussian Mixture model, human visual system, image fusion
Supervisor
Wu, Jonathan
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Detection of concealed weapons is an increasingly important problem for both military and police since global terrorism and crime have grown as threats over the years. This work presents two image fusion algorithms, one at pixel level and another at feature level, for efficient concealed weapon detection application. Both the algorithms presented in this work are based on the double-density dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DDDTCWT). In the pixel level fusion scheme, the fusion of low frequency band coefficients is determined by the local contrast, while the high frequency band fusion rule is developed with consideration of both texture feature of the human visual system (HVS) and local energy basis. In the feature level fusion algorithm, features are exacted using Gaussian Mixture model (GMM) based multiscale segmentation approach and the fusion rules are developed based on region activity measurement. Experiment results demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of the proposed algorithms.
Recommended Citation
Xu, Tuzhi, "Multisensor Concealed Weapon Detection Using the Image Fusion Approach" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5773.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5773