High performance infrared fast cooled detectors for missile applications

Reibel, Yann; Espuno, Laurent; Taalat, R.; Ahmad, Shahzad; Cassaigne, Pierre; Matallah, Noura

doi:10.1117/12.2230431

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“…It is foreseeable that next generation IR detectors will have larger numbers of pixels, frame rates of more than 250 Hz, multispectral detection including 3-4 bands with low crosstalk, on-chip processing implementing well testesd computer vision algorithms such as segmentation, edge and motion detection. They may be able to operate near room temperature operation to reduce power consumption by getting rid of the dewar and cooler [22].…”

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Infrared guidance systems. A review of two man-portable defense applications

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2020

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Since the 1950’s infrared (IR) guidance technologies have been increasingly used in various fields including scientific, industrial and military applications. Affording visibility despite light conditions, in military applications IR made possible night vision, as well as seeker systems intended to guide missiles autonomously to their targets. This article presents a historical overview of IR guidance and discusses to of its current applications in portable air defense systems.

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Infrared guidance systems. A review of two man-portable defense applications

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2020

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“…Third, with the rapid development of infrared detector technology and performance, the latest IR imaging systems have shown a trend of "three highs" (high resolution, high frame rate, and high dynamic range). Consequently, these imaging systems put forward extremely high requirements on the computational efficiency of data processing methods, and a large number of conventional algorithms cannot meet the real-time requirements [5]. Finally, due to the difficulty of data acquisition for research and experiments, there are only a few high-performance IR detection techniques for dim and small targets in high-altitude scenarios.…”

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New Results on Small and Dim Infrared Target Detection

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Sensors

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Real-time small infrared (IR) target detection is critical to the performance of the situational awareness system in high-altitude aircraft. However, current IR target detection systems are generally hardware-unfriendly and have difficulty in achieving a robust performance in datasets with clouds occupying a large proportion of the image background. In this paper, we present new results by using an efficient method that extracts the candidate targets in the pre-processing stage and fuses the local scale, blob-based contrast map and gradient map in the detection stage. We also developed mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) cameras for data collection experiments and algorithm evaluations. Experimental results using both publicly available datasets and image sequences acquired by our cameras clearly demonstrated that the proposed method achieves high detection accuracy with the mean AUC being at least 22.3% higher than comparable methods, and the computational cost beating the other methods by a large margin.

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High performance infrared fast cooled detectors for missile applications

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Infrared guidance systems. A review of two man-portable defense applications

Infrared guidance systems. A review of two man-portable defense applications

New Results on Small and Dim Infrared Target Detection

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