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Image Processing in Thermal Cameras

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Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 106))

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In article a general description of thermographic camera structure is shown alongside with outline of signal processing operations in typical observational infrared camera. There are presented examples of digital image processing engine featuring flexible and fast implementation. There are presented also developed by authors detection and object tracking methods on thermographic video streams. Methods were tested and implemented in real life systems and experimentally verified. Based on these results, it turned out that a detection method is characterized by a high probability of detection at a relatively low probability of false alarm, and the method of tracking allows effective determination of the trajectory of moving objects in thermographic images.

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  1. Military University of Technology, Institute of Optoelectronics, Warsaw, Poland

    Tomasz Sosnowski, Grzegorz Bieszczad & Henryk Madura

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  1. Institute of Automatic Control, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Aleksander Nawrat

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    Damian Bereska

  3. Institute of Automatic Control, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Karol Jędrasiak

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Sosnowski, T., Bieszczad, G., Madura, H. (2018). Image Processing in Thermal Cameras. In: Nawrat, A., Bereska, D., Jędrasiak, K. (eds) Advanced Technologies in Practical Applications for National Security. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64674-9_3

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