A single-pixel target detection and tracking system

The authors present a pipeline method for detection and tracking of pixel-sized moving targets with unknown trajectories from a time sequence of highly noisy images. The pipeline target detection algorithm uses the temporal continuity of the smooth trajectories of moving targets and successfully detects and simultaneously tracks all the target trajectories by mapping them from the image sequence onto a single target frame. The pipeline method overcomes the constraint of a straight line trajectory that most other algorithms require for similar tasks. The algorithm is a complete parallel distributed processing type process, and therefore is highly time-efficient-ideal for real-time detection and tracking of arbitrary target trajectories in high-noise environments