Selection of Outline Descriptors Based on LightGBM with Application to Infrared Image Target Recognition

Infrared sensing technology can be well used for night observation, which is becoming an important measure for battlefield reconnaissance. It is a powerful way to implement precision strikes and situational awareness by improving the ability of target recognition based on infrared images. For the pr...

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Autores principales: Xiaohong Hu, Ziyang Yao
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Publicado: Hindawi Limited 2021
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Sumario:Infrared sensing technology can be well used for night observation, which is becoming an important measure for battlefield reconnaissance. It is a powerful way to implement precision strikes and situational awareness by improving the ability of target recognition based on infrared images. For the problem of infrared image recognition, the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) is employed to select the outline descriptors extracted based on the elliptic Fourier series (EFS), which is combined with sparse representation-based classification (SRC) to achieve target recognition. First, based on the target outlines in the infrared image, the multi-order outline descriptors are extracted to characterize the essential characteristics of the target to be recognized. Then, the LightGBM feature selection algorithm is used to screen the multi-order outline descriptors to reduce redundancy and improve the pertinence of features. Finally, the selected outline descriptors are classified based on SRC. The method effectively improves the effectiveness of the final features through the feature selection of LightGBM and reduces the computational complexity of classification at the same time, which is beneficial to improve the overall recognition performance. The mid-wave infrared (MWIR) dataset of various targets is employed to carry out verification experiments for the proposed method under three different conditions of original samples, noisy samples, and partially occluded samples. By comparing the proposed method with several types of existing infrared target recognition methods, the results show that the proposed method can achieve better performance.