The traditional small target detection algorithm often results in a high false alarm rate on the sea surface background. To address this issue, a small target detection method based on guided filtering and local avera...The traditional small target detection algorithm often results in a high false alarm rate on the sea surface background. To address this issue, a small target detection method based on guided filtering and local average gray level difference was proposed in this paper for the sea surface. Firstly, the method enhanced the details of the small targets by employing guided filtering to suppress the background clutter and noise in the sea surface image. Subsequently, the local average gray level difference of each point in the image was calculated to further distinguish the targets from other interference points. Finally, the threshold segmentation method was utilized to obtain the actual small targets on the sea surface. After conducting experiments on various sea surface scenes, the LSCRG, BSF, and ROC curve were computed for the proposed method and five other algorithms. Comparative analysis with BS, Top-hat, TDLMS, Max-median, and LCM demonstrates the superiority of the proposed method for infrared small target detection on the sea surface.展开更多
This paper has proposed a new modelling and simulating technique for the echo of the semi-active radar seeker against the sea skimming target. The echo modelling is based on the electromagnetic scattering mechanisms. ...This paper has proposed a new modelling and simulating technique for the echo of the semi-active radar seeker against the sea skimming target. The echo modelling is based on the electromagnetic scattering mechanisms. A modified Four-path model based on the radar detection scene is used to describe the multipath scattering between the target and rough sea surface. A Facet-based Small Slope Approximation (FBSSA) method is employed to calculate the scattering from the sea surface. The Physical Optics (PO) and the Equivalent Edge Current (EEC) Method is used to calculate the target scattering. In the echo simulations. The results present the original echo and the echo processed by the signal processing procedures, where the clutter and multipath effect can be observed.展开更多
The target on the sea surface is complex and difficult to detect due to the interference of backscattered returns from the sea surface illuminated by the radar pulse. Detrended fluctuation analysis （DFA） has been us...The target on the sea surface is complex and difficult to detect due to the interference of backscattered returns from the sea surface illuminated by the radar pulse. Detrended fluctuation analysis （DFA） has been used successfully to extract the time-domain Hurst exponent of sea-clutter series. Since the frequency of the sea clutter mainly concentrates around Doppler center so that we consider to extract frequency-do- main fractal characterization and then detect a weak target within sea clutter by using the difference of frequency-domain fractal characterization. The generalized detrended fluctuation analysis （GDFA） is more flexible than traditional DFA owing to its smoothing action for the clutters. In this paper, we apply the GDFA to evaluate the generalized Hurst exponent of sea-clutter series in the frequency domain. The difference of generalized Hurst exponents between different sea-clutter range bins would be used to determine whether the target exists. Moreover, some simulations with the real IPIX radar data have also been demonstrated in order to suooort this conclusion.展开更多
Dim target detection from sea clutter is one of the difficult topics in ocean remote sensing application. By aiming at the shortcoming of false alarms when using track before detect （TBD） based on dynamic programmin...Dim target detection from sea clutter is one of the difficult topics in ocean remote sensing application. By aiming at the shortcoming of false alarms when using track before detect （TBD） based on dynamic programming, a new discrimination method called statistics of direction histogram （SDH） is proposed, which is based on different features of trajectories between the true target and false one. Moreover, a new series of discrimination schemes of SDH and Local Extreme Value method （LEV） are studied and applied to simulate the actually measured radar data. The results show that the given discrimination is effective to reduce false alarms during dim targets detection.展开更多
海杂波背景下的海上小目标是海洋雷达探测的重难点。针对特征空间内海杂波与小目标特征可分性问题,提出了量化特征之间可分性的度量标准——重叠系数。通过开展对海探测试验获取的2~5级海况实测数据,分别提取时域特征相对平均幅度(Relat...海杂波背景下的海上小目标是海洋雷达探测的重难点。针对特征空间内海杂波与小目标特征可分性问题,提出了量化特征之间可分性的度量标准——重叠系数。通过开展对海探测试验获取的2~5级海况实测数据,分别提取时域特征相对平均幅度(Relative Average Amplitude,RAA)、相对峰值峰高(Relative Peak Height,RPH)、时域熵值均值(Time domain Entropy Mean,TEM),频域特征相对多普勒峰高(Relative Doppler Peak Height,RDPH)、相对多普勒向量熵(Relative Vector Entropy,RVE)、频域熵值二阶矩(Second moment of Frequency domain Entropy,SOFE),计算出重叠系数。通过特征检测器进行检测性能对比,低海况下,相对平均幅度、相对峰值峰高、时域熵值均值、相对多普勒峰高、频域熵值二阶矩特征之间重叠系数均在0.3以下,对应特征检测器的检测概率均在85%以上;高海况下其特征之间重叠系数均在0.7以上,对应特征检测器的检测概率均在50%以下。相对多普勒向量熵在4种海况下可分性较小,其对应的特征检测器性能较差。结果验证了重叠系数在一维特征选择的应用可行性,为多特征融合目标检测提供了一定支持。展开更多
文摘The traditional small target detection algorithm often results in a high false alarm rate on the sea surface background. To address this issue, a small target detection method based on guided filtering and local average gray level difference was proposed in this paper for the sea surface. Firstly, the method enhanced the details of the small targets by employing guided filtering to suppress the background clutter and noise in the sea surface image. Subsequently, the local average gray level difference of each point in the image was calculated to further distinguish the targets from other interference points. Finally, the threshold segmentation method was utilized to obtain the actual small targets on the sea surface. After conducting experiments on various sea surface scenes, the LSCRG, BSF, and ROC curve were computed for the proposed method and five other algorithms. Comparative analysis with BS, Top-hat, TDLMS, Max-median, and LCM demonstrates the superiority of the proposed method for infrared small target detection on the sea surface.
文摘This paper has proposed a new modelling and simulating technique for the echo of the semi-active radar seeker against the sea skimming target. The echo modelling is based on the electromagnetic scattering mechanisms. A modified Four-path model based on the radar detection scene is used to describe the multipath scattering between the target and rough sea surface. A Facet-based Small Slope Approximation (FBSSA) method is employed to calculate the scattering from the sea surface. The Physical Optics (PO) and the Equivalent Edge Current (EEC) Method is used to calculate the target scattering. In the echo simulations. The results present the original echo and the echo processed by the signal processing procedures, where the clutter and multipath effect can be observed.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China Project under contract Nos 41276187 and 41076119the Scientific Research Foundation for Introducing Talents,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology under contract No.20110310Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation under contract No.BK2011008
文摘The target on the sea surface is complex and difficult to detect due to the interference of backscattered returns from the sea surface illuminated by the radar pulse. Detrended fluctuation analysis （DFA） has been used successfully to extract the time-domain Hurst exponent of sea-clutter series. Since the frequency of the sea clutter mainly concentrates around Doppler center so that we consider to extract frequency-do- main fractal characterization and then detect a weak target within sea clutter by using the difference of frequency-domain fractal characterization. The generalized detrended fluctuation analysis （GDFA） is more flexible than traditional DFA owing to its smoothing action for the clutters. In this paper, we apply the GDFA to evaluate the generalized Hurst exponent of sea-clutter series in the frequency domain. The difference of generalized Hurst exponents between different sea-clutter range bins would be used to determine whether the target exists. Moreover, some simulations with the real IPIX radar data have also been demonstrated in order to suooort this conclusion.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61001137)the Pre-Research Foundation(Grant No.9140A07020311HK0116)
文摘Dim target detection from sea clutter is one of the difficult topics in ocean remote sensing application. By aiming at the shortcoming of false alarms when using track before detect （TBD） based on dynamic programming, a new discrimination method called statistics of direction histogram （SDH） is proposed, which is based on different features of trajectories between the true target and false one. Moreover, a new series of discrimination schemes of SDH and Local Extreme Value method （LEV） are studied and applied to simulate the actually measured radar data. The results show that the given discrimination is effective to reduce false alarms during dim targets detection.
文摘海杂波背景下的海上小目标是海洋雷达探测的重难点。针对特征空间内海杂波与小目标特征可分性问题,提出了量化特征之间可分性的度量标准——重叠系数。通过开展对海探测试验获取的2~5级海况实测数据,分别提取时域特征相对平均幅度(Relative Average Amplitude,RAA)、相对峰值峰高(Relative Peak Height,RPH)、时域熵值均值(Time domain Entropy Mean,TEM),频域特征相对多普勒峰高(Relative Doppler Peak Height,RDPH)、相对多普勒向量熵(Relative Vector Entropy,RVE)、频域熵值二阶矩(Second moment of Frequency domain Entropy,SOFE),计算出重叠系数。通过特征检测器进行检测性能对比,低海况下,相对平均幅度、相对峰值峰高、时域熵值均值、相对多普勒峰高、频域熵值二阶矩特征之间重叠系数均在0.3以下,对应特征检测器的检测概率均在85%以上;高海况下其特征之间重叠系数均在0.7以上,对应特征检测器的检测概率均在50%以下。相对多普勒向量熵在4种海况下可分性较小,其对应的特征检测器性能较差。结果验证了重叠系数在一维特征选择的应用可行性,为多特征融合目标检测提供了一定支持。
