The current threats to US security, both military and civilian, have led to an increased interest in the development of technologies to safeguard national facilities such as military bases, federal buildings, nuclear power plants, and national laboratories. As a result, the imaging, robotics, and intelligent systems (IRIS) laboratory at the University of Tennessee has established a research consortium, known as security automation and future electromotive robotics (SAFER), to develop, test, and deploy sensing and imaging systems. In this paper, we describe efforts made to build multi-perspective mosaics of infrared and color video data for the purpose of under vehicle inspection. It is desired to create a large, high-resolution mosaic that may be used to quickly visualize the entire scene shot by a camera making a single pass underneath the vehicle. The method uses phase correlation to perform registration and is capable of building mosaics from video sequences captured using infrared and visible-spectrum modalities. Several constraints are placed on the video data in order to facilitate the assumption that the entire scene in the sequence exists on a single plane. Therefore, a single mosaic is used to represent a single video sequence.
SAFER under vehicle inspection through video mosaic building
The Industrial Robot ; 31 , 5 ; 435-442
2004
8 Seiten, 8 Bilder, 9 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
Mosaic Generation for Under Vehicle Inspection
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