Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: A Method to Extract Future Warships in Complex Sea-Sky Background which May Be Virtually Invisible

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"A Method to Extract Future Warships in Complex Sea-Sky Background which May Be Virtually Invisible"
by G.K. Santhalia, N. Sharma, S. Singh, M. Das, J. MulChandani
in the Proceedings of the Third Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation, 2009. AMS '09, May 2009

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper is a verbatim copy of the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Research on Extraction of Ship Target in Complex Sea-sky Background"
by W J Kang, X M Ding, J W Cui and L Ao
in the International Symposium on Instrumentation Science and Technology, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 48, 2006, pp. 354-358


The next generation of warships might be virtually invisible to the human eye. This can be achieved by painting ships with metamaterial. These materials can bend light around object, making it to appear to an observer as though the waves have passed through empty space. We have developed a method to identify these ships target with the help of image processing. Research on the extraction of ship target in complex sea-sky background has important value to improve the capability of imaging-typed sea navigation and nautical traffic control systems. According to the imaging property of complex sea-sky background, a reliable ship target extraction method is proposed in this paper. The general guide line is that getting the sea-sky division line as a priori knowledge and then the target potential area is determined through discontinuous region of the sea-sky division line. Firstly, a local selective window filter is adopted to filter the image; secondly, eight directions Sobel operator edge detection method and gradient Hough transform are combined to extract sea-sky division line in the image; then a multi-histogram matching technique is adopted to remove the sea and sky background and thus ship target is extracted from complex background. The experiments show that our method has the merits of robustness to noise, small computational complexity and stability.