A novel airport surface surveillance based on multi-video fusion

Airport surface surveillance is an important issue guaranteeing the safety. Traditionally, this depends on the SMR (Surface Movement Radar) or ASDE (Aerodrome Surface Detection Equipment). However, these equipments are very complex and expensive, which is not suitable for the simple airports. On the other hand, video is a type of common and cheaper equipment and can be mounted largely in the airports. If the video also provides the ability of motion detection while guaranteeing the precision, it can be yet regarded as a substitute for non-cooperative radar like SMR and ASDE. This paper proposed such a solution based on optical flow field detection, dynamic fuzzy clustering and multi-sensor fusion. Experiments show that the solution is not only feasible but also with high detection precision.