Application of the curvelet transform for pipe detection in GPR images

Guillaume Terrasse (1, 2) , J. M. Nicolas (1, 2) , Emmanuel Trouvé (3) , Émeline Drouet (4)

1 IMAGES - Image, Modélisation, Analyse, GEométrie, Synthèse
2 TSI - Département Traitement du Signal et des Images
3 LISTIC - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Systèmes, Traitement de l'Information et de la Connaissance
4 ENGIE

This paper is dedicated to the detection of buried pipes with a ground penetrating radar (GPR). The images from GPR acquisitions also called B-scan are corrupted by clutter and noise. In order to remove these undesirable items we propose to use the properties of the curvelet transform. Were using this method as a first step of the automatic detection of hyperbola in a B-scan.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Signal and Image Processing

Guillaume Terrasse, J. M. Nicolas, Emmanuel Trouvé, Émeline Drouet. Application of the curvelet transform for pipe detection in GPR images. IGARSS, Jul 2015, Milano, Italy. ⟨hal-01187681⟩