Title

Autonomous Video Registration Using Sensor Model Parameter Adjustments

Abstract

Recently, airborne video surveillance platforms have gained greater acceptance for use in a variety of DoD missions due to their utility, affordability and autonomy. While a variety of airborne collectors and unmanned aerial vehicles may be equipped for video surveillance to support diverse mission needs, ground processing systems cannot handle this high data rate medium without some degree of autonomous processing to simplify and extend the exploitation process for video imagery. In this paper, we outline a novel approach for near-real-time video registration based on sensor model parameter adjustments and the application of a Kalman filter. The goal of our Precision Video Registration (PVR) development is to register video with a reference image to provide accurate 3-D geolocations. Our sensor-based 3-D treatment is unique since most registration approaches employ only simple image-to-image mappings, such as affine transformations. In our approach, we explicitly model the projections between the 3-D world and 2-D images and perform registration in 3-D with greater accuracy and fidelity. PVR performance results show significant accuracy improvement over unregistered frame geolocation, and autonomously generated video mosaics appear smooth and seamless.

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Publication Title

Proceedings - Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop

Volume

2000-January

Number of Pages

215-222

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/AIPRW.2000.953628

Socpus ID

0344291109 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0344291109

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