Long Range Moving Target Detection Based on Motion Analysis

Yang Xuan; Pei Ji-hong; Xie Wei-xin

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1146.2006.00037

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Yang Xuan, Pei Ji-hong, Xie Wei-xin. Long Range Moving Target Detection Based on Motion Analysis[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2007, 29(8): 1829-1832. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1146.2006.00037

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Yang Xuan, Pei Ji-hong, Xie Wei-xin. Long Range Moving Target Detection Based on Motion Analysis[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2007, 29(8): 1829-1832. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1146.2006.00037

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Long Range Moving Target Detection Based on Motion Analysis

doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1146.2006.00037

Received Date: 2006-01-09
Rev Recd Date: 2006-09-19
Publish Date: 2007-08-19

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Detection of long range targets in thermal infrared image sequences is of interest in many applications such as military field and surveillance system. Incoming targets at long range where the motion is small and signal to noise is poor are difficult to detect in cluttered thermal infrared image sequences. In this paper, long range target detection in cluttered thermal infrared image sequences is presented. At first, possible targets are detected using top-hat detector in thermal infrared video. Next, motion feature is analyzed by measure the correlation of a target in different frames. Targets with reasonable motion characteristics are decided as long range moving target. In the proposed method background estimation is not needed and heavy noise could be avoided. By modify motion model, targets with different motion features could be detected. Experiments show that the proposed method is feasible and robust.

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