Investigation of kinematic features for dismount detection and tracking

Ranga Narayanaswami; Anastasia Tyurina; David Diel; Raman K. Mehra; Janice M. Chinn

doi:10.1117/12.918665

15 May 2012 Investigation of kinematic features for dismount detection and tracking

Ranga Narayanaswami, Anastasia Tyurina, David Diel, Raman K. Mehra, Janice M. Chinn

Proceedings Volume 8393, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2012; 839305 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918665
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

With recent changes in threats and methods of warfighting and the use of unmanned aircrafts, ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) activities have become critical to the military's efforts to maintain situational awareness and neutralize the enemy's activities. The identification and tracking of dismounts from surveillance video is an important step in this direction. Our approach combines advanced ultra fast registration techniques to identify moving objects with a classification algorithm based on both static and kinematic features of the objects. Our objective was to push the acceptable resolution beyond the capability of industry standard feature extraction methods such as SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) based features and inspired by it, SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Feature). Both of these methods utilize single frame images. We exploited the temporal component of the video signal to develop kinematic features. Of particular interest were the easily distinguishable frequencies characteristic of bipedal human versus quadrupedal animal motion. We examine limits of performance, frame rates and resolution required for human, animal and vehicles discrimination. A few seconds of video signal with the acceptable frame rate allow us to lower resolution requirements for individual frames as much as by a factor of five, which translates into the corresponding increase of the acceptable standoff distance between the sensor and the object of interest.

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Ranga Narayanaswami, Anastasia Tyurina, David Diel, Raman K. Mehra, and Janice M. Chinn "Investigation of kinematic features for dismount detection and tracking", Proc. SPIE 8393, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2012, 839305 (15 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918665

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