Toronto, July 2010: DRDC Atlantic is developing the capability to detect, recognize and identify small sea craft in images from EO/IR sensors (visible, night vision and infrared cameras). To facilitate these efforts, DRDC-Atlantic has awarded AUG Signals a contract to develop a software tool consisting of a user interface with several specific image analysis algorithms, which will further enhance small craft detection and tracking capabilities.
Detectability and other associated tasks depend on various parameters, including the clutter of the sea background, the white-water wake from the boat, and the diurnal environmental conditions. The technologies to be developed under this contract will include conversion of video streams to image sequences, determination of the sky-sea horizon, background sensor large scale non-uniformity correction, small craft and white-water wake demarcation, time-range synchronization, small craft tracking, image enhancement, and pixel-based contrast metrics
For more information, please contact Dr. Abhijit Sinha, Project Manager.