Intelligent Statistical Tracker.

Abstract

The Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) of RCA has undertaken the task of developing sophisticated algorithms for autonomous target acquisition and tracking. When this contract was awarded, the investigators had already demonstrated in a simulation testbed that a statistical segmentation algorithm using multiple features for classification performs well on low resolution infared images of tanks. This contract was used to investigate improvements to the tracker system, and evolve towards a real-time hardware implementation. The goals of the original contract were met within two years of the contract award. At that time, several analytical and experimental investigations had been conducted. The tracker simulator had gone through several revisions, as new concepts were invented and tested. A report describing many of the facets of the statistical tracking system that were worked out by this contract is attached as an appendix. Originator-supplied keywords include: Target Acquistion, Target Tracking, Algorithms, COmputerized Simulation Image Processing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA151495

Entities

People

  • W. B. Schaming

Organizations

  • RCA Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Control Systems
  • Detection
  • Digital Image Processing
  • Digital Images
  • Image Processing
  • Images
  • Military Research
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Statistical Processes
  • Target Acquisition
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.