학술논문

Automatic Buried Objects Detection in Different Soils Based on Active Contours
Document Type
Conference
Source
2006 World Automation Congress Automation Congress, 2006. WAC '06. World. :1-8 Jul, 2006
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Computing and Processing
Transportation
Signal Processing and Analysis
Buried object detection
Soil
Active contours
Detectors
Object detection
Electromagnetic interference
Magnetic sensors
Landmine detection
Frequency
Induction generators
buried object
metal detector
active contour model
virtual electric field
Language
ISSN
2154-4824
Abstract
An efficient approach to detect and to localize buried objects using a continuous wave metal detector in different soils is presented. The algorithm can minimize the distracting influence from the soil and localize the buried objects with better precision. This approach used an extern force called virtual electric field, to guide the deformation process to active contours boundaries which correspond exactly to the buried objects with and a computed multichannel gradient applied to the obtained metal detector images. The quality of the results can be significantly improved by employing this approach. This can be very useful for higher level vision processing.