Hidden Markov Models for background clutter

作者：Li, Qian^*; Yang, Cui; Zhang, Jian-Qi; Zhang, Dong-Yang

来源：Optical Engineering, 2013, 52(7): 073108.

DOI：10.1117/1.OE.52.7.073108

• background clutter
• Hidden Markov Model
• electro-optical imaging system
• target acquisition performance

The development of a target acquisition performance model for an electro-optical imaging system is seriously affected by the description of the target and background characteristics at present. Based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM), a different clutter metric is proposed to quantify the influence of background on target detection in this article. It first simulates the process of recording a target in the human brain by optimizing the HMM parameters to represent the target as far as possible. And then the background clutter is defined to be the similarity, estimated by the computed model parameters, between the target and background. Finally, the newly proposed clutter metric is applied to the Search2 database, and the experiment results prove its superiority to other metrics.

• 出版日期2013-7
• 单位西安电子科技大学