Adjacent Infrared Multitarget Detection Using Robust Background Estimation

Table 1

Statistical performance comparisons of the adjacent multitarget detection methods (DR: detection rate, FAR: # of false alarms per frame).

DB	Method	Threshold	DR (%)	FAR (#/image)
Set 1	HM-CFAR; (proposed)	8.1	100.0	13.2
	H-CFAR [23]	5.2	77.7	13.2
	Top-hat [19]	6.9	90.3	13.2
	TDLMS [20]	6	67.1	13.2
Set 2	HM-CFAR; (proposed)	13.9	100.0	5.0
	H-CFAR [23]	7.5	71.0	5.0
	Top-hat [19]	18.6	38.0	5.0
	TDLMS [20]	6.3	90.0	5.0