Concepts in Real-Time Video Tracking.

摘要

This report describes the real-time video (RTV) tracking system which will be deployed at the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) during fiscal year 1979. This tracking system utilizes a distributive array of the five high-speed microprocessors to implement a real-time tracking algorithm with sufficient intelligence to overcome the tracking problems associated with typical noisy and cluttered backgrounds encountered in WSMR tracking imagery. Target positions relative to boresight and target attitude angles are also computed and recorded for each video field during the tracking sequence, thus eliminating the cost and delay imposed by present systems which require post-flight processing of film to extract these parameters. A computer simulation of the RTV tracking system has been developed at WSMR to test the tracking and image processing algorithms utilized in the system. The simulation program is described, along with other research tools developed as part of the WSMR image processing laboratory. Finally, significant results of an investigation of various image processing techniques suitable for RTV tracking are presented. (Author)