Experimental method to pre-process fuzzy bit planes before low-level feature extraction in thermal images

Abstract

Noise affects the values of pixels in a thermal image. As the values of pixels will determine the appearance of the bit planes of thermal images, noise will affect the bit planes as well. Noisy thermal images have bit planes which resembles static. These bit planes will not be useful for the purpose of extracting low-level details, e.g. detecting edges and blobs. The method described in this article is intended to be utilized as a pre-processing step to identify these bit planes before any further processing steps which make use of bit planes take place