The application of IR detector with windowing technique in the small and dim target detection

Xiaofeng Su; FanSheng Chen; Yucui Dong; Kun Cui; Sijie Huang

doi:10.1117/12.2180906

13 April 2015 The application of IR detector with windowing technique in the small and dim target detection

Xiaofeng Su, FanSheng Chen, Yucui Dong, Kun Cui, Sijie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9522, Selected Papers from Conferences of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics 2014, Part II; 95222D (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2180906
Event: Selected Proceedings of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee Conferences held August-October 2014, 2014, China, China

Abstract

The performance of small and dim IR target detection is mostly affected by the signal to noise ratio(SNR) and signal to clutter ratio(SCR), for the MWIR especially LWIR array detector, because of the background radiation and the optical system radiation, the SCR cannot be unlimited increased by using a longer integral time, so the frame rate of the detector was mainly limited by the data readout time especially in a large-scale infrared detector, in this paper a new MWIR array detector with windowing technique was used to do the experiment, which can get a faster frame rate around the target by using the windowing mode, so the redundant information could be ignore, and the background subtraction was used to remove the fixed pattern noise and adjust the dynamic range of the target, then a local NUC(non uniformity correction) technique was proposed to improve the SCR of the target, the advantage between local NUC and global NUC was analyzed in detail, finally the multi local window frame accumulation was adopted to enhance the target further, and the SNR of the target was improved. The experiment showed the SCR of the target can improved from 1.3 to 36 at 30 frames accumulation, which make the target detection and tracking become very easily by using the new method.

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Xiaofeng Su, FanSheng Chen, Yucui Dong, Kun Cui, and Sijie Huang "The application of IR detector with windowing technique in the small and dim target detection", Proc. SPIE 9522, Selected Papers from Conferences of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics 2014, Part II, 95222D (13 April 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2180906

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Target detection

Signal to noise ratio

Sensors

Nonuniformity corrections

Mid-IR

Infrared detectors

Detector arrays

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