DOI: 10.5176/2251-1652_RTES17
Authors: Çağrı Güvenel, Ahmet Tekyıldız, Çağın Türkoğlu, Çağlar Yıldız, Anıl Çelebi, Oğuzhan Urhan, M. Kemal Güllü, Sarp Ertürk
Abstract: This paper presents an infrared (IR) camera with an embedded target detection and tracking system composed of an uncooled microbolometer long wave IR (LWIR) sensor, FPGA and DSP. The sensor used in the system has a 640×480 pixel sized focal plane. A sensor board is designed to read the output data of the infrared (IR) sensor. An FPGA development board is used to control and read from the sensor and transmit image data to external devices and the DSP. Raw data that is being read by FPGA is transferred to the DSP for embedded target detection and tracking (TDT) process. The TDT module implemented in the DSP utilizes frame thresholding and differencing for target detection and Kalman filtering for tracking. Experimental results show that the system is able to detect and track targets in real time.
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