Small extending target precision tracking with dual-infrared imaging sensors

Haochen Liang; GuoQiang Ni; Zhenfu Zhu; Genxing Xu; Anjun Pan; Bo Song

doi:10.1117/12.364060

4 October 1999 Small extending target precision tracking with dual-infrared imaging sensors

Haochen Liang, GuoQiang Ni, Zhenfu Zhu, Genxing Xu, Anjun Pan, Bo Song

Proceedings Volume 3809, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1999; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.364060
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

It is a challenging problem to track point source targets and small extending ones in clutter. Only using single-image sensor is usually not adequate to meet the requirement of a multi-target tracking (MTT) system. Carrying out the measurement through two IR waveband image sensors, and fusing efficiently measurement data of both sensors, we can track small extending targets precisely and improve the performance of the MTT system. In this paper, the multi- target tracking method based on 3-5 micrometers and 8-12 micrometers IR image sensors is introduced. The mission scenario is thought as tracking air target. The algorithm of the target image centroid estimator is discussed. In order to improve the precision of target tracking, the data fusion algorithm with Kalman filter is described for the target vector feature. THe simulation results indicate that the target tracking precision can be improved by tracking small extending targets with dual-IR image sensors.

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Haochen Liang, GuoQiang Ni, Zhenfu Zhu, Genxing Xu, Anjun Pan, and Bo Song "Small extending target precision tracking with dual-infrared imaging sensors", Proc. SPIE 3809, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1999, (4 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.364060

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Filtering (signal processing)

Target detection

Infrared imaging

Infrared radiation

Sensors

Image sensors

Data fusion

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