Large field-of-view range-gated laser imaging based on image fusion

Pengdao Ren; Xinwei Wang; Liang Sun; Ruirong You; Pingshun Lei; Yan Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.2246072

8 November 2016 Large field-of-view range-gated laser imaging based on image fusion

Pengdao Ren, Xinwei Wang, Liang Sun, Ruirong You, Pingshun Lei, Yan Zhou

Proceedings Volume 10020, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology IV; 100201K (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2246072
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2016, Beijing, China

Abstract

Laser range-gated imaging has great potentials in remote night surveillance with far detection distance and high resolution, even if under bad weather conditions such as fog, snow and rain. However, the field of view (FOV) is smaller than large objects like buildings, towers and mountains, thus only parts of targets are observed in one single frame, so that it is difficult for targets identification. Apparently, large FOV is beneficial to solve the problem, but the detection range is not available due to low illumination density in a large field of illumination matching with the FOV. Therefore, a large field-of-view range-gated laser imaging is proposed based on image fusion in this paper. Especially an image fusion algorithm has been developed for low contrast images. First of all, an infrared laser range-gated system is established to acquire gate images with small FOV for three different scenarios at night. Then the proposed image fusion algorithm is used for generating panoramas for the three groups of images respectively. Compared with raw images directly obtained by the imaging system, the fused images have a larger FOV with more detail target information. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed image fusion algorithm is effective to expand the FOV of range-gated imaging.

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Pengdao Ren, Xinwei Wang, Liang Sun, Ruirong You, Pingshun Lei, and Yan Zhou "Large field-of-view range-gated laser imaging based on image fusion", Proc. SPIE 10020, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology IV, 100201K (8 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2246072

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