An Image Enhancement Technique of X-Ray CarryonLuggage for Detection of Contraband Illicit Object(s)
Luggage inspection systems play an important role in
ensuring national security at airports. In this research, an
effort of a new enhancement algorithm of dual-energy Xray
carry-on luggage images is proposed to ensure the
national security at airports. A new approach of combing
High Energy and Low Energy x-ray images, de-noise it and
at the end enhance the fused image with histogram
specification to improve the contrast. The final image did
not only contains the details, but is also backgroundnoise-
free and contrast-enhanced, therefore easier to
segment automatically or be interpreted by screeners,
thus reducing the false alarm rate in X-ray luggage
inspection. It is observed that the proposed approach is
more suitable for screeners in detecting contraband/illicit
objects than using other conventional techniques.
Keywords: Dual Energy x-ray Image enhancement, image restoration, image fusion, De-noising, Histogram specification.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Sajid Ullah Khan
Ph.D Scholar
Wang Yin Chai
Professor in UNIMAS
Sajid Ullah Khan
Ph.D Scholar
Wang Yin Chai
Professor in UNIMAS