Real-time automatic inspection under adverse conditions

Fernando D. Carvalho; Fernando C. Correia; Jose Cabrita A. Freitas; Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues

doi:10.1117/12.26087

1 March 1991 Real-time automatic inspection under adverse conditions

Fernando D. Carvalho, Fernando C. Correia, Jose Cabrita A. Freitas, Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues

Proceedings Volume 1399, Optical Systems in Adverse Environments; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.26087
Event: Singapore, 1990, -, Singapore

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a R&D Program supported by a grant from the Ministry of Defense, devoted to the development of an inteffigent camera for surveillance in the open air. The effects of shadows, clouds and winds were problems to be solved without generating false alarm events. The system is based on a video CCD camera which generates a video CCIR signal. The signal is then processed in modular hardware which detects the changes in the scene and processes the image, in order to enhance the intruder image and path. Windows may be defined over the image in order to increase the information obtained about the intruder and a first approach to the classification of the type of intruder may be achieved. The paper describes the hardware used in the system, as well as the software, used for the installation of the camera and the software developed for the microprocessor which is responsible for the generation of the alarm signals. The paper also presents some results of surveillance tasks in the open air executed by the system with real time performance.

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Fernando D. Carvalho, Fernando C. Correia, Jose Cabrita A. Freitas, and Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues "Real-time automatic inspection under adverse conditions", Proc. SPIE 1399, Optical Systems in Adverse Environments, (1 March 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.26087

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