Super-resolution for flash ladar imagery.
Flash ladar systems are compact devices with high frame rates that hold promise for robotics applications, but these devices suffer from poor spatial resolution. This work develops a wavelet preprocessing stage to enhance registration of multiple frames and applies super-resolution to improve the resolution of flash ladar range imagery. The triangle orientation discrimination methodology was used for a subjective evaluation of the effectiveness of super-resolution for flash ladar. Results show statistically significant increases in the probability of target discrimination at all target ranges, as well as a reduction in subject response times for super-resolved imagery.
Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783, USA. shuowen.hu@arl.army.mil
Shuowen
S
Hu
S Susan
SS
Young
Tsai
T
Hong
Joseph P
JP
Reynolds
Keith
K
Krapels
Brian
B
Miller
Jim
J
Thomas
Oanh
O
Nguyen