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Real-Time Optical and Ladar Imagery Registration for Tracking

Explore 2D-3D registration of optical and Ladar imagery for real-time tracking purposes. This research focuses on UAVs with 3D Ladar imagery, initial registration techniques, and statistical methods for efficient tracking. Discover feature detection, occlusion reasoning, and fusion of optical and Ladar images.

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Real-Time Optical and Ladar Imagery Registration for Tracking

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  1. 2D-3D Registration of Optical and Ladar Imagery for Real-Time Tracking Andrew Mastin,1,2 Jeremy Kepner,1 John Fisher III21Lincoln Laboratory 2Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139 mastin@csail.mit.edu kepner@ll.mit.edu fisher@csail.mit.edu High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop 23-25 September 2008 This work is sponsored in part by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force contract FA8721-05-C-0002.  Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the author and not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.

  2. Overview UAV with on-board 3D ladar imagery Initial ladar-optical registration with feature detection and statistical registration Registration updated by tracking feature points in video Real-time tracking with occlusion reasoning from ladar imagery Video reconnaissance

  3. Statistical Registration Methods • Commonly used for registration of multi-modal medical imagery • Information theoretic similarity measure with optimization • Machine learning approach Feature detection / classification Ladar Image Registration Optical Image Feature detection / classification

  4. Fusion of Optical and Ladar Imagery ladar_drape_demo.avi

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