A novel ego-motion compensation strategy for automatic target tracking in FLIR video sequences taken from UAVs

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 723-734

  Sanna, Andrea ^a   Pralio, Barbara ^a   Lamberti, Fabrizio ^a   Paravati, Gianluca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Atmospheric modeling; Cameras; Monitoring; Target tracking; Tracking; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; AUTOMATIC TARGET TRACKING; CANDIDATE TARGET; EGO-MOTION; EGO-MOTION COMPENSATION; FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED; ROBUST ALGORITHM; SUB-FRAME; TRACKING; TRACKING FAILURE; VIDEO SEQUENCES;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; AUTOMOBILE FRAMES; CAMERAS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; TARGETS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VIDEO RECORDING;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 67650504134     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2009.5089552     Document Type: Article

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