Evaluation of a vehicle tracking system for multi-modal UAV-captured video data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7668, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sadlier, D A ^a   O'Connor, N E ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

adaptive weighting; spatiogram; UAV; Vehicle detection; vehicle tracking; video

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FEATURES; ADAPTIVE WEIGHTING; AERIAL VIDEO; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; DATA SETS; INFRARED CHANNEL; LOCALISATION; MOTION-COMPENSATED VIDEO; MOVING VEHICLES; MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-SPECTRAL; OBJECT TRACKING; REGION MATCHING; RIGOROUS EVALUATION; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; THERMAL INFRARED; VEHICLE DETECTION; VEHICLE TRACKING; VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM; VIDEO DATA; VIDEO FILES; VIDEO SEQUENCES; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

COMPUTER VISION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TRACKING (POSITION); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES; VIDEO RECORDING;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 77953572253     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.849669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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