Research on Detecting Methods for Sea-Surface Targets

In this paper, several moving target detection methods, such as edge detection, morphological processing and template matching, are analyzed and compared in detail, and hence, the designer can effectively select the most suitable method for a given application in a principled way. Based on the morphological processing method and the template matching, a combined method for detecting sea-surface targets is proposed. In this method, a possible target region can be obtained through morphological open-minus-original operation, and then targets can be located exactly with template matching method. Our experimental results show that the proposed method is significantly feasible and effective