Contraband detection algorithm for X‐ray security inspection images based on global semantic enhancement

• Published in: IET image processing
• Main Authors: Pei, Xiaofang, Ma, Changsong, Zhou, Jin, Yang, Jihai, Xu, Yongheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 07.10.2024
• ISSN: 1751-9659; 1751-9667
• DOI: 10.1049/ipr2.13256

Abstract Aiming at the problem of low detection accuracy caused by overlapping occlusion and noise disturbance, a contraband detection algorithm for X‐ray security inspection images based on global semantic enhancement is proposed to achieve accurate contraband target detection by enhancing global semantic information. First, the disturbance suppression module is used to weaken the noise disturbance at different positions by local suppression and aggregate finer detail information. Then, the parallel cascade search module is used to capture long‐range dependencies and strengthen the representation of global semantic information, which helps the model identify contraband under overlapping occlusion. Finally, the contribution of different features is adaptively adjusted through the feature‐weighted fusion module, which promotes the effective fusion of multi‐scale features and improves the accuracy of model detection. The method in this article has been extensively evaluated and experimented on three mainstream benchmark datasets: SIXray, OPIXray, and PIDray. The mAPs of three datasets reach 93.5%, 91.9%, and 85.9%, respectively. The experimental results fully demonstrate that the method in this article has better performance compared with the latest method, which can meet the practical application requirements of real‐time target detection.