Multiple target tracking in a wide-field-of-view camera system

Conference · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2322217· OSTI ID:6777458

Park, Hye-Sook; Axelrod, T S; Colella, N J; Colvin, M E; Ledebuhr, A G

A real-time-multiple-target-tracking system is being developed using a wide-field-of-view (WFOV) camera. The high resolution WFOV camera was conceived as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The camera system consists of a lens made of concentric solid blocks of index matching glasses, CCDs arrayed on the focal plane, and a custom VLSI image processor to extract the targets. This paper will briefly review the existing prototype system, the on-going effort to cover the full field of view using digital CCD cameras, the production of custom VLSI chips developed to extract centroids in real time, and the implementation of transputers to run the tracking algorithms. 4 refs., 5 figs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6777458
• Report Number(s): UCRL-101921; CONF-900451-4; ON: DE90013488
• Resource Relation: Conference: Technical symposia on optical engineering and photonics in aerospace sensing, Orlando, FL (USA), 16-20 Apr 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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