PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | February 21, 2014
Proc. SPIE. 9142, Selected Papers from Conferences of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics: Optical Imaging, Remote Sensing, and Laser-Matter Interaction 2013
KEYWORDS: Fluctuations and noise, Detection and tracking algorithms, Aerospace engineering, Cameras, Image processing, Bismuth, Spatial resolution, Defense technologies, Field emission displays, Astronomical engineering
Target location is a fundamental application in aerial image process. In this work, a fast normalized cross correlation algorithm is proposed for the application of target location in aerial image. Firstly, normalized cross correlation has been proved equivalent to Euclidean distance. In the search step, the target template and the corresponding window of base image are projected to a set of mutually orthonormal vectors for calculating the lower bound of the distance, where the windows with too large distance relative to the target template will be rejected in this step. Finally, the directly normalized cross correlation calculating is applied to the rest windows of base image to achieve the final correct location of target. The experimental results show that compared with traditional method, the proposed method significantly improved the computational complexity without sacrificing the spatial resolution or the accuracy of the match result.
