Aircraft recognition based on improved iterative threshold selection and skeleton Zernike moment

Using the visible optics images to identify targets is an important part in the development of remote sensing technology. In this paper, a new aircraft recognition method based on the improved iterative threshold selection and the skeleton Zernike moment is presented. The method segment aircraft targets under complex background using iterative threshold selection with between-class distance and scatter, and calculate the skeleton Zernike moment for the aircraft target recognition using template matching method. The experimental results show that the new method can effectively achieve the target segmentation under complex backgrounds, and provide a satisfactory performance both in recognition rate and recognition speed.