Adaptive aircraft detection based on level set and circle-frequency filter

A novel adaptive aircraft detection method based on level set processing and circle-frequency filter is proposed in this paper. First, the SBGFRLS (Selective Binary and Gaussian Filtering Regularized Level Set) method is used twice to find airport region of interest (ROI) and candidate aircraft areas by local segmentation and global segmentation, respectively, so that sizes of those possible target areas can be computed. Then, the circle-frequency (CF) filter method is utilized adaptively to detect target aircrafts in the airport ROI via the mean radius estimated by sizes of those candidate areas obtained before. Experimental results on real remote sensing airport images demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method.