A scene-based nonuniformity correction algorithm based on fuzzy logic

Scene-based nonuniformity correction algorithms based on the LMS adaptive filter are quite efficient to reduce the fixed pattern noise in infrared images. They are famous for their low cost of computation and storage recourses. Unfortunately, ghosting artifacts can be easily introduced in edge areas when the inter-frame motion slows. In this paper, a gated scene-based nonuniformity correction algorithm is proposed. A novel low-pass filter based on the fuzzy logic is proposed to estimate the true scene radiation as the desired signal in the LMS adaptive filter. The fuzzy logic can also evaluate the probability that a pixel and its locals belong to edge areas. Then the update of the correction parameters for the pixels in edge areas can be gated. The experiment results show that our method is reliable and the ghosting artifacts are reduced.