A Deep Learning Approach for Landmines Detection Based on Airborne Magnetometry Imaging and Edge Computing

Landmines continue to pose an ongoing threat in various regions around the world,with countless buried landmines affecting numerous human lives.The detonation of these landmines results in thousands of casualties reported worldwide annually.Therefore,there is a pressing need to employ diverse landmine detection techniques for their removal.One effective approach for landmine detection is UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)based AirborneMagnetometry,which identifies magnetic anomalies in the local terrestrial magnetic field.It can generate a contour plot or heat map that visually represents the magnetic field strength.Despite the effectiveness of this approach,landmine removal remains a challenging and resource-intensive task,fraughtwith risks.Edge computing,on the other hand,can play a crucial role in critical drone monitoring applications like landmine detection.By processing data locally on a nearby edge server,edge computing can reduce communication latency and bandwidth requirements,allowing real-time analysis of magnetic field data.It enables faster decision-making and more efficient landmine detection,potentially saving lives and minimizing the risks involved in the process.Furthermore,edge computing can provide enhanced security and privacy by keeping sensitive data close to the source,reducing the chances of data exposure during transmission.This paper introduces the MAGnetometry Imaging based Classification System(MAGICS),a fully automated UAV-based system designed for landmine and buried object detection and localization.We have developed an efficient deep learning-based strategy for automatic image classification using magnetometry dataset traces.By simulating the proposal in various network scenarios,we have successfully detected landmine signatures present in themagnetometry images.The trained models exhibit significant performance improvements,achieving a maximum mean average precision value of 97.8%.

Copy-Move Geometric Tampering Estimation Through Enhanced SIFT Detector Method

Digital picture forgery detection has recently become a popular and sig-nificant topic in image processing.Due to advancements in image processing and the availability of sophisticated software,picture fabrication may hide evidence and hinder the detection of such criminal cases.The practice of modifying origi-nal photographic images to generate a forged image is known as digital image forging.A section of an image is copied and pasted into another part of the same image to hide an item or duplicate particular image elements in copy-move forgery.In order to make the forgeries real and inconspicuous,geometric or post-processing techniques are frequently performed on tampered regions during the tampering process.In Copy-Move forgery detection,the high similarity between the tampered regions and the source regions has become crucial evidence.The most frequent way for detecting copy-move forgeries is to partition the images into overlapping square blocks and utilize Discrete cosine transform(DCT)com-ponents as block representations.Due to the high dimensionality of the feature space,Gaussian Radial basis function(RBF)kernel based Principal component analysis(PCA)is used to minimize the dimensionality of the feature vector repre-sentation,which improves feature matching efficiency.In this paper,we propose to use a novel enhanced Scale-invariant feature transform(SIFT)detector method called as RootSIFT,combined with the similarity measures to mark the tampered areas in the image.The proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of matching time complexity,detection reliability,and forgery location accuracy,according to the experimental results.The F1 score of the proposed method is 92.3%while the literature methods are around 90%on an average.

Statistical Tests of Hypothesis Based Color Image Retrieval

This paper proposes a novel method based on statistical tests of hypotheses, such as F-ratio and Welch’s t-tests. The input query image is examined whether it is a textured or structured. If it is structured, the shapes are segregated into various regions according to its nature;otherwise, it is treated as textured image and considered the entire image as it is for the experiment. The aforesaid tests are applied regions-wise. First, the F-ratio test is applied, if the images pass the test, then it is proceeded to test the spectrum of energy, i.e. means of the two images. If the images pass both tests, then it is concluded that the two images are the same or similar. Otherwise, they differ. Since the proposed system is distribution-based, it is invariant for rotation and scaling. Also, the system facilitates the user to fix the number of images to be retrieved, because the user can fix the level of significance according to their requirements. These are the main advantages of the proposed system.

Analytical review and study on object detection techniques in the image

Object detection is the most fundamental but challenging issues in the field of computer vision.Object detection identifies the presence of various individual objects in an image.Great success is attained for object detection/recognition problems in the controlled environment,but still,the problem remains unsolved in the uncontrolled places,particularly,when the objects are placed in arbitrary poses in an occluded and cluttered environment.In the last few years,a lots of efforts are made by researchers to resolve this issue,because of its wide range of applications in computer vision tasks,like content-enabled image retrieval,event or activity recognition,scene understanding,and so on.This review provides a detailed survey of 50 research papers presenting the object detection techniques,like machine learning-based techniques,gradient-based techniques,Fast Region-based Convolutional Neural Network(Fast R-CNN)detector,and the foreground-based techniques.Here,the machine learning-based approaches are classified into deep learning-based approaches,random forest,Support Vector Machine(SVM),and so on.Moreover,the challenges faced by the existing techniques are explained in the gaps and issues section.The analysis based on the classification,toolset,datasets utilized,published year,and the performance metrics are discussed.The future dimension of the research is based on the gaps and issues identified from the existing research works.