Intelligent Tracking Techniques - A Progress Report

Thomas J. Willett; Peter K. Raimondi

doi:10.1117/12.957266

20 August 1979 Intelligent Tracking Techniques - A Progress Report

Thomas J. Willett, Peter K. Raimondi

Proceedings Volume 0178, Smart Sensors; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957266
Event: Technical Symposium East, 1979, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

Under contract to the Army's Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory, Westinghouse has been investigating the design, test, and implementation of a set of algorithms to perform intelligent target tracking and intelligent target homing on FLIR and TV imagery. The focus is a system of algorithms which can quantitively identify a target and its present background, but can acknowledge the approach of a new background in the target's path, characterize this new region, and intelligently predict the target's signature before it enters a new domain. The operating environment for the system is a high clutter background associated with ground targets. Three types of obscurations are considered: (1) the target enters a background very similar in gray scale to it, (2) the target passes behind an obscuration such that some identifiable portion is always visible, and (3) where the target passes behind a thin screen of obscuration and portions of the target can be seen on each frame but portions vary from frame to frame. The system may be viewed as a target cuer operating in conjunction with a target signature predictor and high speed frame to frame registration. The review describes some of the work performed in the first 6 months of a 19-month program.

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Thomas J. Willett and Peter K. Raimondi "Intelligent Tracking Techniques - A Progress Report", Proc. SPIE 0178, Smart Sensors, (20 August 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957266

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