Spatio-temporal alignment of multiple sensors

Tinghua Zhang; Guoqiang Ni; Guihua Fan; Huayan Sun; Biao Yang

doi:10.1117/12.2292037

10 January 2018 Spatio-temporal alignment of multiple sensors

Tinghua Zhang, Guoqiang Ni, Guihua Fan, Huayan Sun, Biao Yang

Proceedings Volume 10616, 2017 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optical Systems and Modern Optoelectronic Instruments; 106160X (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292037
Event: International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology 2017, 2017, Beijing, China

Abstract

Aiming to achieve the spatio-temporal alignment of multi sensor on the same platform for space target observation, a joint spatio-temporal alignment method is proposed. To calibrate the parameters and measure the attitude of cameras, an astronomical calibration method is proposed based on star chart simulation and collinear invariant features of quadrilateral diagonal between the observed star chart. In order to satisfy a temporal correspondence and spatial alignment similarity simultaneously, the method based on the astronomical calibration and attitude measurement in this paper formulates the video alignment to fold the spatial and temporal alignment into a joint alignment framework. The advantage of this method is reinforced by exploiting the similarities and prior knowledge of velocity vector field between adjacent frames, which is calculated by the SIFT Flow algorithm. The proposed method provides the highest spatio-temporal alignment accuracy compared to the state-of-the-art methods on sequences recorded from multi sensor at different times.

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Tinghua Zhang, Guoqiang Ni, Guihua Fan, Huayan Sun, and Biao Yang "Spatio-temporal alignment of multiple sensors", Proc. SPIE 10616, 2017 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optical Systems and Modern Optoelectronic Instruments, 106160X (10 January 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292037

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