Calibration and display of distributed aperture sensor systems

Jason Dale; David Dwyer

doi:10.1117/12.718583

27 April 2007 Calibration and display of distributed aperture sensor systems

Jason Dale, David Dwyer

Proceedings Volume 6559, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2007; 65590G (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718583
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Distributed aperture sensor (DAS) systems can enhance the situational awareness of operators in both manned and unmanned platforms. In such a system, images from multiple sensors must be registered and fused into a seamless panoramic mosaic in real time, whilst being displayed with very low latency to an operator. This paper describes an algorithm for solving the multiple-image alignment problem and an architecture that leverages the power of consumer graphics processing units (GPU) to provide a live panoramic mosaic display. We also describe other developments aimed at integrating high resolution imagery from an independently steerable fused TV/IR sensor into the mosaic, panorama stabilisation and automatic target detection.

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Jason Dale and David Dwyer "Calibration and display of distributed aperture sensor systems", Proc. SPIE 6559, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2007, 65590G (27 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718583

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