Fast ground target detection method in infrared image sequences

Automatic target detection (ATD) in infrared (IR) imagery is a fundamental and challenging task in computer vision. A fast automatic target detection method in IR image sequence is proposed in this paper. Since the position and scale of target change real-timely, we can predict the target position in real-time image by using the history position of target and flight parameters information of previous and current frames, and then estimate the scale of target depending on flight parameters and imaging parameters for getting the model with the appropriate scale. In order to make the template matching more robust for target rotation, the template matching method based on parametric template vector is used to recognize the position of target. The detection result is identified by using multiframe integration based on recognition information of history and currant frames. Some experimental results using real-world images with complicated background validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method under rotation and scale variance condition.