De Villiers, JPBachoo, AKNicolls, FCLe Roux, FPJ2011-11-182011-11-182011-04De Villiers, J., Bachoo, A., Nicolls, F. & Le Roux, F. 2011. Quantitative analysis of the improvement in omnidirectional maritime surveillance and tracking due to real-time image enhancement. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5312 .http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5312Defense, Security, and Sensing (DSS11), Orlando World Center Marriott Resort & Convention Centre, Orlando, Florida, USA, 26-28 April 2011Omnidirectional camera systems are used to supplement RADAR in tracking small craft close in to the ship in a maritime environment. They can simultaneously track multiple targets to provide a more complete situational awareness. Due to their wide field of view the targets may be only a few pixels each. The improvement in tracking small boats, after using real-time image enhancement techniques to mitigate the atmospheric blurring and loss of contrast, is evaluated for several common tracking techniques. A differential GPS and geo-alignment of the cameras is used to create a ground truth for objective comparison.enOmnidirectional maritime surveillanceMaritimeSurveillanceTrackingOmnidirectionalRadio detectionRADARDefenceSecuritySensingConference PresentationDe Villiers, J., Bachoo, A., Nicolls, F., & Le Roux, F. (2011). Quantitative analysis of the improvement in omnidirectional maritime surveillance and tracking due to real-time image enhancement. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5312De Villiers, JP, AK Bachoo, FC Nicolls, and FPJ Le Roux. "Quantitative analysis of the improvement in omnidirectional maritime surveillance and tracking due to real-time image enhancement." (2011): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5312De Villiers J, Bachoo A, Nicolls F, Le Roux F, Quantitative analysis of the improvement in omnidirectional maritime surveillance and tracking due to real-time image enhancement; 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5312 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - De Villiers, JP AU - Bachoo, AK AU - Nicolls, FC AU - Le Roux, FPJ AB - Omnidirectional camera systems are used to supplement RADAR in tracking small craft close in to the ship in a maritime environment. They can simultaneously track multiple targets to provide a more complete situational awareness. Due to their wide field of view the targets may be only a few pixels each. The improvement in tracking small boats, after using real-time image enhancement techniques to mitigate the atmospheric blurring and loss of contrast, is evaluated for several common tracking techniques. A differential GPS and geo-alignment of the cameras is used to create a ground truth for objective comparison. DA - 2011-04 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Omnidirectional maritime surveillance KW - Maritime KW - Surveillance KW - Tracking KW - Omnidirectional KW - Radio detection KW - RADAR KW - Defence KW - Security KW - Sensing LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 T1 - Quantitative analysis of the improvement in omnidirectional maritime surveillance and tracking due to real-time image enhancement TI - Quantitative analysis of the improvement in omnidirectional maritime surveillance and tracking due to real-time image enhancement UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5312 ER -