title: Heteroassociative multiple-target tracking by fringe-adjusted joint transform correlation.
abstract: A heteroassociative joint transform correlation (JTC) technique is proposed for recognizing and tracking multiple heteroassociative or dissimilar targets from gray-level image sequences by use of the concept of fringe-adjusted JTC and a multiple-target-detection algorithm. A fringe-adjusted JTC technique is used to ensure quantification of the similarities among several input images while it satisfies the equal-correlation-peak criterion. Tracking is accomplished by retrieval of the target motion information estimated from multiple consecutive image frames. An enhanced version of the fringe-adjusted filter is incorporated into the heteroassociative multiple-target-detection process to optimize the correlation performance. The feasibility of the proposed technique is tested by computer simulation with real infrared image data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, USA. malam@usouthal.edu
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Alam
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bal