Multispectral detection and tracking of multiple moving targets in cluttered urban environments
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-14-2015
Department
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Center for Data Sciences
Abstract
This paper presents an algorithm for target detection and tracking by fusion of multispectral imagery. In all spectral bands, we build a background model of the pixel intensities using a Gaussian mixture model, and pixels not belonging to the model are classified as foreground pixels. Foreground pixels from the spectral bands are weighted and summed into a single foreground map and filtered to give the fused foreground map. Foreground pixels are grouped into target candidates and associated with targets from a tracking database by matching features from the scale-invariant feature transform. The performance of our algorithm was evaluated with a synthetically generated data set of visible, near-infrared, midwave infrared, and long-wave infrared video sequences. With a fused combination of the spectral bands, the proposed algorithm lowers the false alarm rate while maintaining high detection rates. All 12 vehicles were tracked throughout the sequence, with one instance of a lost track that was later recovered.
Publication Title
Optical Engineering
Recommended Citation
Demars, C. D.,
Roggemann, M.,
&
Havens, T. C.
(2015).
Multispectral detection and tracking of multiple moving targets in cluttered urban environments.
Optical Engineering,
54(12).
http://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.12.123106
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/1038