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Paper Abstract
Forward-looking ground-penetrating radar (FLGPR) has received a significant amount of attention for use in explosivehazards
detection. A drawback to FLGPR is that it results in an excessive number of false detections. This paper presents
our analysis of the explosive-hazards detection system tested by the U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors
Directorate (NVESD). The NVESD system combines an FLGPR with a visible-spectrum color camera. We present a
target detection algorithm that uses a locally-adaptive detection scheme with spectrum-based features. The remaining
FLGPR detections are then projected into the camera imagery and image-based features are collected. A one-class
classifier is then used to reduce the number of false detections. We show that our proposed FLGPR target detection
algorithm, coupled with our camera-based false alarm (FA) reduction method, is effective at reducing the number of
FAs in test data collected at a US Army test facility.
Paper Details
Date Published: 29 April 2010
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 7664, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV, 76641U (29 April 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.852274
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7664:
Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV
Russell S. Harmon; John H. Holloway Jr.; J. Thomas Broach, Editor(s)
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 7664, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV, 76641U (29 April 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.852274
Show Author Affiliations
Timothy C. Havens, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (United States)
Christopher J. Spain, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (United States)
K. C. Ho, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (United States)
James M. Keller, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (United States)
Christopher J. Spain, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (United States)
K. C. Ho, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (United States)
James M. Keller, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (United States)
Tuan T. Ton, U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (United States)
David C. Wong, U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (United States)
Mehrdad Soumekh, Univ. at Buffalo (United States)
David C. Wong, U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (United States)
Mehrdad Soumekh, Univ. at Buffalo (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7664:
Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV
Russell S. Harmon; John H. Holloway Jr.; J. Thomas Broach, Editor(s)
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