Research conducted in the aviation industry includes two major areas, increased safety and a reduction of the environmental footprint. This thesis investigates the possibilities of increased situational awareness with computer vision in avionics systems. Image fusion methods are evaluated with appropriate pre-processing of three image sensors, one in the visual spectrum and two in the infra-red spectrum. The sensor setup is chosen to cope with the different weather and operational conditions of an aircraft, with a focus on the final approach and landing phases. Extensive image quality assessment metrics derived from a systematic review is applied to provide a precise evaluation of the image quality of the fusion methods. A total of four image fusion methods are evaluated, where two are convolutional network-based, using the networks for feature extraction in the detailed layers. Other approaches with visual saliency maps and sparse representation are also evaluated. With methods implemented in MATLAB, results show that a conventional method implementing a rolling guidance filter for layer separation and visual saliency map provides the best results. The results are further confirmed with a subjective ranking test, where the image quality of the fusion methods is evaluated further.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-48597 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Björklund, Emil, Hjorth, Johan |
| Publisher | Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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