Fusion of multisensor passive and active 3D imagery

David A. Fay; Jacques G. Verly; Michael I. Braun; Carl E. Frost; Joseph P. Racamato; Allen M. Waxman

doi:10.1117/12.438025

28 August 2001 Fusion of multisensor passive and active 3D imagery

David A. Fay, Jacques G. Verly, Michael I. Braun, Carl E. Frost, Joseph P. Racamato, Allen M. Waxman

Proceedings Volume 4363, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2001; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.438025
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 2001, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

We have extended our previous capabilities for fusion of multiple passive imaging sensors to now include 3D imagery obtained from a prototype flash ladar. Real-time fusion of low-light visible + uncooled LWIR + 3D LADAR, and SWIR + LWIR + 3D LADAR is demonstrated. Fused visualization is achieved by opponent-color neural networks for passive image fusion, which is then textured upon segmented object surfaces derived from the 3D data. An interactive viewer, coded in Java3D, is used to examine the 3D fused scene in stereo. Interactive designation, learning, recognition and search for targets, based on fused passive + 3D signatures, is achieved using Fuzzy ARTMAP neural networks with a Java-coded GUI. A client-server web-based architecture enables remote users to interact with fused 3D imagery via a wireless palmtop computer.

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David A. Fay, Jacques G. Verly, Michael I. Braun, Carl E. Frost, Joseph P. Racamato, and Allen M. Waxman "Fusion of multisensor passive and active 3D imagery", Proc. SPIE 4363, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2001, (28 August 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.438025

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