Digital imaging and remote sensing image generator (DIRSIG) as applied to NVESD sensor performance modeling

Kimberly E. Kolb; Hee-sue S. Choi; Balvinder Kaur; Jeffrey T. Olson; Clayton F. Hill; James A. Hutchinson

doi:10.1117/12.2224006

3 May 2016 Digital imaging and remote sensing image generator (DIRSIG) as applied to NVESD sensor performance modeling

Kimberly E. Kolb, Hee-sue S. Choi, Balvinder Kaur, Jeffrey T. Olson, Clayton F. Hill, James A. Hutchinson

Proceedings Volume 9820, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXVII; 982019 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224006
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

The US Army’s Communications Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (referred to as NVESD) is developing a virtual detection, recognition, and identification (DRI) testing methodology using simulated imagery as a means of augmenting the field testing component of sensor performance evaluation, which is expensive, resource intensive, time consuming, and limited to the available target(s) and existing atmospheric visibility and environmental conditions at the time of testing. Existing simulation capabilities such as the Digital Imaging Remote Sensing Image Generator (DIRSIG) and NVESD’s Integrated Performance Model Image Generator (NVIPM-IG) can be combined with existing detection algorithms to reduce cost/time, minimize testing risk, and allow virtual/simulated testing using full spectral and thermal object signatures, as well as those collected in the field. NVESD has developed an end-to-end capability to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach. Simple detection algorithms have been used on the degraded images generated by NVIPM-IG to determine the relative performance of the algorithms on both DIRSIG-simulated and collected images. Evaluating the degree to which the algorithm performance agrees between simulated versus field collected imagery is the first step in validating the simulated imagery procedure.

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Kimberly E. Kolb, Hee-sue S. Choi, Balvinder Kaur, Jeffrey T. Olson, Clayton F. Hill, and James A. Hutchinson "Digital imaging and remote sensing image generator (DIRSIG) as applied to NVESD sensor performance modeling", Proc. SPIE 9820, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXVII, 982019 (3 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224006

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