Method for Uncooled Infrared Image Processing

Abstract:

Uncooled infrared imaging system has been increasingly applied in both the national defense and various fields of national economy. Such popularity is attributed to many of its advantages, including small size, light weight, low energy-consumption and superior portability. However, as limited by the structure and the material of infrared detector and the manufacturing techniques, infrared images are plagued with low resolution and poor image quality. This paper mainly studies the uncooled infrared image processing based on the gray levels partition processing, gray levels stretching and histogram modification, it aims to enhance the visual effect of infrared image.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 427-429)
• Pages: 1948-1951
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.427-429.1948
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Jia Lin Ma*, Xia Zhang
• Keywords: Gray Level’s Partition Processing, Histogram Modification, Image Processing, Uncooled Infrared Image

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