Title: The realtime Vision System for small-sized target tracking

Authors: Andrey A. Boguslavsky, Sergey M. Sokolov

Addresses: Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Miusskaya Sq. 4, Moscow, 125047, Russia. ' Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Miusskaya Sq. 4, Moscow, 125047, Russia

Abstract: In this paper the real-time Vision System (VS) for small-sized target tracking is described. The target is a spot of a compact laser projector. The considered VS is intended for embedding into a triangulation range measurement system. This range measurement system consists of a video camera and a structured lighting device. VS also can be used with contactless measurement devices, which perform measurements of physical quantities within the limited aperture. The VS allows tracing a trajectory of this aperture in a camera field of view. This trajectory can be displayed for the operator as overlay graphics on the image of a camera field of view. The considered VS is developed for use on general-purpose notebooks with Intel-compatible microprocessors.

Keywords: real-time vision systems; small target detection; small target tracking; vision systems software; small targets; triangulation range measurement; contactless measurement; trajectory tracking.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSM.2007.013767

International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics, 2007 Vol.1 No.1, pp.115 - 127

Published online: 25 May 2007 *

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