DETECTION OF CONCEALED WEAPONS IN X-RAY IMAGES USING FUZZY K -NN

Scanning baggage by x-ray and analysing such images have become important technique for detecting illicit materials in the baggage at Airports. In order to provide adequate security, a reliable and fast screening technique is needed for baggage examination.This paper aims at providing an automatic method for detecting concealed weapons, typically a gun in the baggage by employing image segmentation method to extract the objects of interest from the image followed by applying feature extraction methods namely Shape context descriptor and Zernike moments. Finally the objects are classified using fuzzy KNN as illicit or non-illicit object.

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