Experimental study with enhanced Vision System prototype unit

Author

Naidu, VPS ; Narayana Rao, P. ; Kashyap, Sudesh K. ; Shanthakumar, N. ; Girija, G.

Author_Institution

Multi Sensor Data Fusion Lab., CSIR, Bangalore, India

fYear

2011

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The National Civil Aircraft (NCA) being developed at National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) is expected to have the capability of operation from airports with minimal infrastructure and instrumentation facility under all-weather conditions. The key enabling technology for this is an Integrated Enhanced and Synthetic Vision System (IESVS), which is a combination of Enhanced Vision System (EVS), Synthetic Vision System (SVS), and Head-Up Display. A prototype of EVS consisting of Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera and CCD color camera is developed and tested at NAL. A Simulink block is developed to acquire the image data in real time (online) from a four channel frame grabber. An image fusion algorithm based on wavelets is developed to fuse the images from CCD and FLIR cameras. The affine transform used for image registration is computed by selecting the control points from both CCD and FLIR images. Test results from the experiments conducted on the runway during day and night (runway lights ON/OFF) conditions are presented.

Keywords

CCD image sensors; aerospace computing; affine transforms; aircraft; data acquisition; head-up displays; image fusion; image registration; virtual reality; wavelet transforms; CCD color camera; National Aerospace Laboratories; Simulink block; affine transform; enhanced vision system prototype unit; forward looking infrared camera; four channel frame grabber; head-up display; image fusion; image fusion algorithm; image registration; integrated enhanced and synthetic vision system; national civil aircraft; real time image data acquisition; wavelet; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Image fusion; Image registration; Information processing; Machine vision; Prototypes; Enhanced Vision System; FLIR; Image Fusion; National Civil Aircraft;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Information Processing (ICIIP), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Himachal Pradesh

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-859-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIIP.2011.6108860

Filename

6108860