An infrared target intrusion detection method based on feature fusion and enhancement

Abstract Infrared target intrusion detection has significant applications in the fields of military defence and intelligent warning. In view of the characteristics of intrusion targets as well as inspection difficulties, an infrared target intrusion detection algorithm based on feature fusion and enhancement was proposed. This algorithm combines static target mode analysis and dynamic multi-frame correlation detection to extract infrared target features at different levels. Among them, LBP texture analysis can be used to effectively identify the posterior feature patterns which have been contained in the target library, while motion frame difference method can detect the moving regions of the image, improve the integrity of target regions such as camouflage, sheltering and deformation. In order to integrate the advantages of the two methods, the enhanced convolutional neural network was designed and the feature images obtained by the two methods were fused and enhanced. The enhancement module of the network strengthened and screened the targets, and realized the background suppression of infrared images. Based on the experiments, the effect of the proposed method and the comparison method on the background suppression and detection performance was evaluated, and the results showed that the SCRG and BSF values of the method in this paper had a better performance in multiple data sets, and it’s detection performance was far better than the comparison algorithm. The experiment results indicated that, compared with traditional infrared target detection methods, the proposed method could detect the infrared invasion target more accurately, and suppress the background noise more effectively.