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T1 - Human silhouette extraction on FPGAs for infrared night vision military surveillance
AU - Zafar, Iffat
AU - Zakir, Usman
AU - Romanenko, Ilya
AU - Jiang, Richard M.
AU - Edirisinghe, Eran
PY - 2010/12/27
Y1 - 2010/12/27
N2 - Infrared visual surveillance has become an important mean to secure military camps, reassure soldier security, and detect suspected terror activities in the battle fields. An intelligent infrared surveillance system is aimed to provide real-time intelligent analysis of the perceived scene and find out human targets instantly to assist the soldier/commanders to make the right decision in a just-in-time mode to save our soldiers from life risks. To attain this, automatic detection of moving human objects from the scene is an essential step. In this paper, we present an FPGAs-based architecture to perform on-chip human silhouette extraction using a parallel architecture with systolic arrays. The architecture is designed in VHDL and simulated with real FLIR videos. The experiment shows that the designed processor on FPGAs can efficiently extract the human contour instantly from infrared videos, which exhibits great potential to facilitate the further analysis of the battlefield scenes for military-purpose surveillance systems.
AB - Infrared visual surveillance has become an important mean to secure military camps, reassure soldier security, and detect suspected terror activities in the battle fields. An intelligent infrared surveillance system is aimed to provide real-time intelligent analysis of the perceived scene and find out human targets instantly to assist the soldier/commanders to make the right decision in a just-in-time mode to save our soldiers from life risks. To attain this, automatic detection of moving human objects from the scene is an essential step. In this paper, we present an FPGAs-based architecture to perform on-chip human silhouette extraction using a parallel architecture with systolic arrays. The architecture is designed in VHDL and simulated with real FLIR videos. The experiment shows that the designed processor on FPGAs can efficiently extract the human contour instantly from infrared videos, which exhibits great potential to facilitate the further analysis of the battlefield scenes for military-purpose surveillance systems.
KW - Human silhoueue
KW - Infrared imaging
KW - Military surveillance
KW - Salient object detection
KW - VLSI architecture
U2 - 10.1109/PACCS.2010.5627025
DO - 10.1109/PACCS.2010.5627025
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:78650351199
SN - 9781424479689
T3 - 2010 2nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Circuits, Communications and System, PACCS 2010
SP - 63
EP - 66
BT - 2010 2nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Circuits, Communications and System, PACCS 2010
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2010 2nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Circuits, Communications and System, PACCS 2010
Y2 - 1 August 2010 through 2 August 2010
ER -