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Detection of Multi-pixel Low Contrast Object on a Real Sea Surface

Version 1 : Received: 30 December 2021 / Approved: 31 December 2021 / Online: 31 December 2021 (11:16:15 CET)

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Golikov, V.; Samovarov, O.; Chernomorets, D.; Rodriguez-Blanco, M. Detection of Multi-Pixel Low Contrast Object on a Real Sea Surface. Mathematics 2022, 10, 392, doi:10.3390/math10030392. Golikov, V.; Samovarov, O.; Chernomorets, D.; Rodriguez-Blanco, M. Detection of Multi-Pixel Low Contrast Object on a Real Sea Surface. Mathematics 2022, 10, 392, doi:10.3390/math10030392.

Abstract

The video images captured at long range usually have low contrast floating objects of interest on a sea surface. A comparative experimental study of the statistical characteristics of reflections from floating objects and from the agitated sea surface showed the difference in the correlation and spectral characteristics of these reflections. The functioning of the recently proposed modified matched subspace detector (MMSD) is based on the separation of the observed data spectrum on two subspaces: relatively low and relatively high frequencies. In the literature the MMSD performance has been evaluated in generally and moreover using only a sea model (additive Gaussian background clutter). This paper extends the performance evaluating methodology for low contrast object detection and moreover using only the real sea dataset. This methodology assumes an object of low contrast if the mean and variance of the object and the surrounding background are the same. The paper assumes that the energy spectrum of the object and the sea are different. The paper investigates a scenario in which an artificially created model of a floating object with specified statistical parameters is placed on the surface of a real sea image. The paper compares the efficiency of the classical Matched Subspace Detector (MSD) and MMSD for detecting low-contrast objects on the sea surface. The article analyzes the dependence of the detection probability at a fixed false alarm probability on the difference between the statistical means and variances of a floating object and the surrounding sea.

Keywords

real sea surface; object detection; performance detection

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems

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