Concealed Weapon Detection using Wavelet, Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform and Curvelet Transform

Abstract

In the field of military and law enforcement, detection and visualization of concealed weapons is a common practice. The infrared and visible cameras providing the information i.e., the characteristic visual features of the image and the thermal radiations are able to provide the complementary information like information about concealed objects or weapons. In this manuscript, we have proposed the integration of visible and infrared images of a scene using curvelet, wavelet and Dual Tree Complex Wavelet transform (DTCWT) with their brief introduction and background. The quantitative and visual results obtained from three techniques are compared and they reveal that DTCWT can be efficiently employed as an efficient image fusion tool in the context of concealed weapon detection.