Toronto, February 2009: AUG Signals has been awarded a DRDC-Atlantic Image Processing Support contract with the objective to implement an Image Processing Library (IPL) with several image processing tools to be applied to Automated Ship Image Acquisition (ASIA) images in order to extract specific information. The IPL suite will have the following capabilities:

1) Evaluate each ASIA image quality based on factors including exposure, focus, contrast, size, obscurity.
2) Perform image enhancement.
3) Extract the required ship information (such as size, orientation, location, presence of wake, and so on) by outlining the ship from the image.
4) Recognize the text printed on the ship body.

IPL will be implemented by integrating several AUG Signals software modules into a complete software suite: image evaluation and enhancement module, image segmentation and detection module, motion segmentation module, multi-frame image enhancement module and OCR module.

For more information please contact Dr. Ting Liu.