01-04-2010, 10:37 PM
Concealed weapon detection (CWD) is an increasingly important topic in the general area of law and enforcement and it appears to be a critical technology for dealing with terrorism, which appears to be the most significant law enforcement problem for the next decade.
Since no single sensor technology can provide acceptable performance in CWD applications, image fusion has been identified as a key technology to achieve improved CWD procedures.
Existing image sensing mechanisms include thermal/infrared (IR), millimeter wave, and visual.
In our current work we focus on fusing visual and IR images for CWD.
Objects:
To develop a new algorithm to fuse a color visual image and a corresponding IR image for a concealed weapon detection application.
The fused image obtained by the proposed algorithm will maintain the high resolution of the visual image, incorporate any concealed weapons detected by the IR sensor, and keep the natural color of the visual image.
COLOR IMAGE FUSION
Image fusion is the process of combining relevant information from two or more images into a single image. The resulting image will be more informative than any of the input images.
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