Analysis of VSAM Research at Carnegie Mellon University and the Sarnoff Corporation: Potential Application to Small Unit Operations

Abstract

This paper summarizes an analysis of the Video Surveillance and Monitoring (VSAM) research being conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Sarnoff Corporation under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Image Understanding Program. The researchers' goal is to develop a cooperative, multisensor video surveillance system for large battlefield areas. The team is developing software and integrating inexpensive commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware systems that will automatically track and identify moving targets. The team is concentrating on integrating the hardware and developing the coordinated tracking algorithms (software) that provide good target identification (ID) and target tracking with a low rate of false alarms. Although the researchers are studying ways to create a VSAM for battlefield management, this system also has clear applications to Small Unit Operations (SUO).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA385147

Entities

People

  • Cynthia Dion-schwarz

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Battlefields
  • Computers
  • Corporations
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • False Alarms
  • Gray Scale
  • Identification
  • Moving Targets
  • Surveillance
  • Target Acquisition
  • Target Tracking
  • Targets
  • Video Surveillance
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Software Engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.