Track-Before-Declare Methods in IR Image Sequences

Abstract

The development of low observable (LO) targets, such as cruise missiles and cruise-missile-carrying aircraft, can severely stress the detection and tracking capabilities of infrared (IR) surveillance systems. Long-range surveillance requires the detection and tracking of targets that are spatially unresolved and often maneuvering in a low signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR) environment. These characteristics make the LO target difficult to detect in single-frame processing techniques. However, by combining intensity information from each pixel over many frames of data it is possible to improve target detection capability. A class of long-term integration techniques for weak target detection, known as track-before-declare (TBD), will be discussed in this paper. IR detection, Surveillance, Tracking.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA257517

Entities

People

  • Steven M. Bolen

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Batch Processing
  • Computational Science
  • Cruise Missiles
  • Data Association
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Information Processing
  • Intensity
  • Neural Networks
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Radar
  • Signal Processing
  • Target Detection
  • Three Dimensional
  • Time Intervals
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.