Multitarget tracking system based on an infrared fish-eye lens

Gang Li, Li Li, Hongbin Shen*, Yongqiang He, Jingxia Huang, Shaojuan Mao, Yuanbo Wang

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Abstract

A multitarget tracking system based on an infrared (IR) fish-eye lens is built to satisfy urgent requirements of large-field IR, multitarget, real-time reconnaissance and tracking. Utilizing an IR fish-eye lens and a 512 × 512 pixel PtSi detector, the system can detect threatening targets at the whole space domain and the whole time domain. The hardware of the system based on a dual-digital signal processor is designed to implement data processing for multitarget tracking algorithms, which include a track initiation algorithm and a modified generalized probability data association algorithm. We also carried out a tracking experiment for two aerial maneuvering targets. Comparing the theoretical and experimental tracks, the availability of the system and the real-time capability of multitarget tracking are validated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7919-7926
Number of pages8
JournalApplied Optics
Volume52
Issue number33
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Nov 2013
Externally publishedYes

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