A Robust Target Detection Algorithm Using MEMS Inertial Sensors for Shipboard Video System

Abstract

Marine situational awareness is the core technology of intelligent ship, and the target detection is the important foundation of situational awareness. In this paper, a robust target detection algorithm using MEMS inertial sensors is proposed for sky-sea line detection for shipboard video system, the key idea is using the inertial data of the shipborne camera to estimate the position and angle of the sky-sea lines in the video frames, so as to achieve the accuracy of the detection area, improve the detection accuracy and reduce the interference of wave clutter. And it is proved by experiments that robust detection results have been achieved.