High-Resolution Remotely Sensed Small Target Detection by Imitating Fly Visual Perception Mechanism.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 789429, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/789429 Research Article High-Resolution Remotely Sensed Small Target Detection by Imitating Fly Visual Perception Mechanism Fengchen Huang, Lizhong Xu, Min Li, and Min Tang College of Computer and Information Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China Correspondence should be addressed to Lizhong Xu, lzhxu@ Received 25 July 2011; Accepted 10 October 2011 Academic Editor: Carlo Cattani Copyright © 2012 Fengchen Huang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The difficulty and limitation of small target detection methods for high-resolution remote sensing data have been a recent research hot spot. Inspired by the information capture and processing theory of fly visual system, this paper endeavors to construct a characterized model of information perception and make use of the advantages of fast and accurate small target detection under complex varied nature environment. The proposed model forms a theoretical basis of small target detection for high-resolution remote sensing data. After the comparison of prevailing simulation mechanism behind fly visual systems, we propose a fly- imitated visual system method of information processing for high-resolution remote sensing data. A small target detector and corresponding detection algorithm are designed by simulating the mechanism of information acquisition, compression, and fusion of fly visual system and the function of pool cell and the character of nonlinear self-adaption. Exper