DATA FUSION PROCESSING TO IDENTIFY OBSCURED OBJECTS

• Main Authors: WADLEIGH, III HAROLD H, MURRAY JAMES THOMAS, SEELY CHARLES JASON, LANG BRIAN WILLIAM
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.01.2016
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; TESTING

Embodiments herein provide for imaging and identification of obscured objects. One system herein includes a volumetric data source comprising three dimensional (3D) imaging data of a scene, and a two dimensional (2D) image source comprising 2D image data of the scene. The system also includes a processor operable to process the 2D data and the 3D data to generate a model of a material obscuring an object in the scene from sensors providing the 2D data and the 3D data. The processor is further operable to refine the model with detection data of the material from the volumetric data source, to detect the material obscuring the object based on the refined model, to generate an image of the scene, and to remove data pertaining to the material from the image to reveal the object in the image.