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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Bing Li, Vestal, NY (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
An airborne mine countermeasure system includes a processor coupled to a memory having stored therein software instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a series of image processing operations. The operations include obtaining input image data from an external image sensor, and extracting a sequence of 2-D slices from the input image data. The operations also include performing a 3-D connected region analysis on the sequence of 2-D slices, and extracting 3-D invariant features in the image data. The operations further include performing coarse filtering, performing fine recognition and outputting an image processing result having an indication of the presence of any mines within the input image data.