Evaluation of the ImmerVision IMV1-1/3NI Panomorph Lens on a Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV)

Abstract

Being able to perform reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition using imagers with wide fields of regard in high resolution is essential for the Army in urban warfare. In this report, we examine the performance and usability of the latest Panomorph lens, IMV1, from ImmerVision on a small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV). The evaluation is based on the execution of two vision applications, namely, the multi-target indicator (MTI) tracker and a histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) based pedestrian detector on 60 GB or seven sets of videos collected outdoors using the IMV1 lens on a PackBot. While the IMV1 performed well with MTI with a detection range limited to 35 m, it failed to provide adequate resolution for the proper execution of the HOG-based pedestrian detector outdoors. Proper exposure compensation is a prerequisite for any outdoor task using the IMV1 due to its extremely wide field of view (FOV).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA587336

Entities

People

  • Philip David
  • Sean Ho

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Central Processing Units
  • Compensation
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Ground Vehicles
  • High Resolution
  • Network Protocols
  • Recognition
  • Software Development
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Surveillance
  • Target Acquisition
  • Target Detection
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Neurotoxicology
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy