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Distance Measurement of Small Moving Object using Infrared Stereo Camera  

Oh, Jun-Ho (Dept. Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee, Sang-Hwa (Dept. Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
Lee, Boo-Hwan (Agency for Defense Development)
Park, Jong-Il (Dept. Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC / v.49, no.3, 2012 , pp. 53-61 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a real-time distance measurement system of high temperature and high speed target using infrared stereo camera. We construct an infrared stereo camera system that measure the difference between target and background temperatures for automatic target measurement. First, the proposed method detects target region based on target motion and intensity variation of local region using difference between target and background temperatures. Second, stereo matching by left and right target information is used to estimate disparity about real-time distance of target. In the proposed method using infrared stereo camera system, we compare distances in three dimension trajectory measuring instrument and in infrared stereo camera measurement. In this experiment from three video data, the result shows an average 9.68% distance error rate. The proposed method is suitable for distance and position measurement of varied targets using infrared stereo system.
Keywords
Infrared camera; Thermal Image; Small Target; Stereo matching; Target Detection;
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