SAIVT Thermal Feature Detection

SAIVT Thermal Feature Detection

Overview

The SAIVT-Thermal Feature Detection Database contains a number of images suitable for evaluating the performance of feature detection and matching in the thermal image domain.

The database includes conditions unique to the thermal domain such as non-uniformity noise; as well as condition common to other domains such as viewpoint changes, and compression and blur.

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Licensing

The SAIVT Thermal Feature Detection Database is © 2012 QUT and is licensed under the .

Attribution

To attribute this database, please include the following citation:

An exploration of feature detector performance in the thermal-infrared modality. Vidas, Stephen, Lakemond, Ruan, Denman, Simon, Fookes, Clinton B., Sridharan, Sridha, & Wark, Tim. (2011) In Bradley, Andrew, Jackway, Paul, Gal, Yaniv, & Salvado, Olivier (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, IEEE , Sheraton Noosa Resort & Spa, Noosa, QLD, pp. 217-223. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/48161/

Acknowledging the database in your publications

In addition to citing our paper, we kindly request that the following text be included in an acknowledgements section at the end of your publications:

We would like to thank the SAIVT Research Labs at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for freely supplying us with the SAIVT Thermal Feature Detection Database for our research.

Installing the database

Download and unzip the following archive:

(187MB, md5sum: 73565fcc95ae987adf446dd2cbc6be4c)

A copy of the publication can be found at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/48161/, and is also included in this package (Vidas 2011 - An exploration of feature detector performance in the thermal-infrared modality.pdf).

Related publications of interest may be found on the following webpages:

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The database has the following structure:

Each of the ten environments is allocated its own directory.
Within most of these directories, thermal-infrared and visible-spectrum data is separated into the "thermal" and "visible" subdirectories respectively
Within each of these subdirectories, a "profile" folder is present which contains a sequence of "ideal" (untransformed) images in 8-bit depth format.
The "thermal" subdirectories also contain a "pure" folder which contains identical images in their original 16-bit depth format (which is difficult to visualize).
Also within each "thermal" subdirectory there may be additional folders present.

Each of these folders contain images under a single, controlled image transformation, the acronyms for which are expanded at the end of this document. The level of transformation varies (generally increasing in severity) as the numerical label for each subfolder increases.

ACRONYMS:

CMP Image Compression
GAU Gaussian Noise
NRM Histogram Normalization
NUC Non-Uniformities Noise
OFB Out-of-focus Blur
QNT Quantization Noise
ROT Image Rotation
SAP Salt and Pepper Noise
TOD Time of day variation
VPT Viewpoint change