A systematic cost-effective approach for underwater photogrammetry

This paper presents a systematic cost-effective approach for underwater 3D photogrammetric reconstruction. Underwater 3D reconstruction is a complicated task due to limiting and varying environmental conditions such as: low light conditions, sea snow, water currents and temperature. Quay wall inspection suffers from other possible complications...

Multi-sensor information extraction and combination in a large harbor surveillance experiment

TDMA X-band FMCW MIMO radar for short range surveillance applications

The work presented in this paper was aimed at the design of a compact radar device to be used for private area surveillance applications. The radar is connected to a pan tilt zoom camera and it provides the camera system with high accuracy position information (bearing and range) of moving targets; in this way the camera can be steered to the...

Laser gated viewing: An enabler for Automatic Target Recognition?

For many decades attempts to accomplish Automatic Target Recognition have been made using both visual and FLIR camera systems. A recurring problem in these approaches is the segmentation problem, which is the separation between the target and its background. This paper describes an approach to Automatic Target Recognition using a laser gated...

Application of heterogeneous multiple camera system with panoramic capabilities in a Harbor Environment

In a harbor environment threats like explosives-packed rubber boats, mine-carrying swimmers and divers must be detected in an early stage. This paper describes the integration and use of a heterogeneous multiple camera system with panoramic observation capabilities for detecting these small vessels in the Den Helder New Harbor in the Netherlands...