title: A real-time video tracking system.
abstract: Object identification and tracking applications of pattern recognition at video rates is a problem of wide interest, with previous attempts limited to very simple threshold or correlation (restricted window) methods. New high-speed algorithms together with fast digital hardware have produced a system for missile and aircraft identification and tracking that possesses a degree of ``intelligence'' not previously implemented in a real-time tracking system. Adaptive statistical clustering and projection-based classification algorithms are applied in real time to identify and track objects that change in appearance through complex and nonstationary background/foreground situations. Fast estimation and prediction algorithms combine linear and quadratic estimators to provide speed and sensitivity. Weights are determined to provide a measure of confidence in the data and resulting decisions. Strategies based on maximizing the probability of maintaining track are developed. This paper emphasizes the theoretical aspects of the system and discusses the techniques used to achieve real-time implementation.
authors.affiliation: MEMBER, IEEE, U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, White Sands, NM 88002.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Giles
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Flachs
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: U Y
authors.initials: UY
authors.lastname: Hsun