US Government as Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Alex Lipchen Chan

Kristan Peter Gurton

Nathaniel Jackson Short

Shuowen Hu

A method and apparatus for cross-modal matching with polarimetric thermal image data is provided. According to one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a plurality of polarimetric thermal images of a face acquired by a polarimetric thermal imaging camera, extracting features of the face from each of the plurality of images to generate a plurality of feature vectors for each of the plurality of images, compositing the feature vectors for each of the plurality of images together to form composite feature vectors and cross-modally matching the composite feature vectors with other feature vectors, in order to determine whether the face matches a face represented by the other feature vectors.

Method of apparatus for cross-modal face matching using polarimetric image data

A system and method of tracking moving targets in video images comprises retrieving a reference video frames each comprising arrays of digital pixels; computing a first averaged image for each of the reference video frames, wherein each pixel value of the first averaged image comprises an average pixel intensity value associated with all corresponding pixel values in the reference video frames; computing a second averaged image for a second set of the reference video frames, wherein each pixel value of the second averaged image comprises an average pixel intensity value associated with all corresponding pixel values in the reference video frames; viewing an input video frame comprising arrays of digital pixels; subtracting the input video frame from the first and second averaged images separately to form at two difference images; and combining the difference images to form a change map.

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Germantown, MD, United States of America

Alex Lipchen Chan