EP2194353B1 - Verfahren und System zur Erkennung von unkonventionellen Spreng- oder Brandvorrichtungen oder dergleichen - Google Patents

Verfahren und System zur Erkennung von unkonventionellen Spreng- oder Brandvorrichtungen oder dergleichen Download PDF

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EP2194353B1
EP2194353B1 EP09177072.7A EP09177072A EP2194353B1 EP 2194353 B1 EP2194353 B1 EP 2194353B1 EP 09177072 A EP09177072 A EP 09177072A EP 2194353 B1 EP2194353 B1 EP 2194353B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F41H—ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
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  • the present invention relates to a method and system for detecting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) or the like.
  • IEDs improvised explosive devices
  • Improvised explosive devices are known to be increasingly used to trap a route, such as a road or road and their aisles, from a conflict zone, because they are easily concealed by reason of their small size and that they can be designed and manufactured relatively easily and artisanally from components available commercially and / or mounted on equipment and appliances public by being diverted from their initial application. Thus, they pose a significant threat to vehicles and individuals, civilian or military, who use these trapped routes.
  • the present invention aims to overcome these drawbacks and relates to a method and a system for detecting improvised explosive devices, which can be used on a moving vehicle without being constrained vis-à-vis the people in the vehicle or close to it.
  • the image correlation detection method is totally passive since it emits no dangerous radiation and is not subject to regulatory constraints as a result of use, so that can be put technically into application very easily.
  • Such an image analysis method makes it possible to notice a change in the current image compared to a previous image, which change may correspond to the presence of an explosive device, and therefore operates in real time with a moving vehicle.
  • the method consists, in accordance with the present invention, of replacing one of every two current images with an earlier image and of successively displaying said current and anterior images thus alternated.
  • Alternate image groups greater than two images
  • Any change between images (or groups of images) representative of the road and its surroundings is thus highlighted step by step along the route, making it as secure as possible.
  • Such a system easily integrates into a vehicle because of its reduced size and consumes, moreover, little energy for its operation, since its source of shooting is a simple camera and its display device a monitor .
  • the detection range of the system can be important since it depends on the resolution of the sensor and the characteristics of the camera lens. A range of some tens to a few hundred meters is thus attainable depending on the size of the objects to be detected.
  • said processing device replaces a current image out of two, taken by said source, with an earlier image of said database, so as to display on said display device an alternating succession of said current and previous images.
  • the detection system 1 is mounted on board a vehicle 2 generally of the military type, symbolized by a mixed rectangular line and traveling on a route (road or track) likely to include improvised explosive devices that can be totally or partially buried and / or concealed in the road or its aisles.
  • the system comprises, as will be seen in more detail below, a current image shooting source 3, a database 4 of reference images IA of said route, a processing device 5, an image registration means 6 and a display device 7.
  • the shooting source 3 is a camera 3A embedded in the vehicle 2 and making it possible to take the current images I of the route and thus to display on the display device 7, the road and the aisles of the route on which the vehicle travels, so as to deliver in real time and continuously, the current images of the route.
  • the database 4 contains previous IA images of the same route but previously filmed and contained on any appropriate computer storage medium, integrated into the vehicle. These images may have been taken by the same camera during a previous pass on the same route.
  • the image processing device 5 is connected to the camera 3A and to the database 4 and thus receives the information (images I and IA) sent by the camera 3A and the database 4.
  • the role of the processing device 5 is to replace current images I delivered by the camera by previous images IA provided by the database 4 and located in the same place.
  • a current image I out of two is replaced by an earlier image IA, so that the alternative display of the current images I of the camera and the previous images IA of the
  • the database allows you to immediately see the changes that have occurred along the current route compared to the previous one.
  • the display device 7 is for example a visualization monitor 7A.
  • the two images provided, respectively current I and previous IA, at a given moment in the same place, may not be strictly identical with respect to their spatial positioning, geographical.
  • the vehicles do not travel exactly the same way along the route and / or the cameras are not placed in the same place on the vehicles. It is thus seen that the route R of the IT route with its two trees AR of the current image I delivered by the camera 3A is slightly shifted to the right with respect to the same route R of the IT route with the same two AR trees of the previous image IA issued by the database 4, which road is in the center of the previous image IA.
  • the system 1 of the invention provides this and its resetting means 6 can consist of several interventions, for example: either to reset the current image I filmed by the camera 3A with that IA of the database 4 from the position of the vehicle or from the position of the vehicle and the orientation of the camera, so as to superimpose said images I and IA, either to use equipment specific to the detection system 1 or to use specific equipment of the vehicle such as that a satellite positioning system, inertial center, if it has one, which equipment allows to know where were taken the images I and IA, thus facilitating their registration.
  • Such a registration of the current images I and earlier IA is also necessary to ensure a good visual comfort of the operator in charge of monitoring the images scrolling alternately on the display monitor 7A.
  • the system 1 can identify, by image correlation, any change occurring between successive images scrolling on the monitor 7A.
  • any change occurring between successive images scrolling on the monitor 7A For example, it can be seen that on the current image I represented and delivered by the camera 3A, as well as on the imaged IR image of monitor 7A, there is a black spot T, on the left-hand side of the road R, while it does not appear on the previous image IA.
  • the operator sees a flashing on the monitor 7A representative of the change between the successive images and corresponding in the example to the spot T, which can be an improvised explosive device. If this is the case, the latter thus detected is then neutralized.
  • the images taken by the camera during the displacement are used to feed, via a link 8, the database 4 which is thus updated.
  • the replacement of old images with recent images makes it possible to overcome slow natural changes in the landscape, such as those of vegetation.
  • the image processing device 5 can be performed automatically to detect and highlight the elements that have changed in the landscape.
  • the image processing device 5 can also act on the images so as to reduce the effect of brightness variations or shadows worn between the two images that have been taken at different times.
  • the image database referenced 4 can of course be shared between several vehicles that can use for example the same portion of the route.

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  1. Verfahren zur Erfassung von Zielen durch Korrelation von Bildern, darin bestehend:
    - kontinuierlich aktuelle Bilder (I) zu liefern, die für Szenen repräsentativ sind, in denen sich die Ziele befinden können;
    - mindestens gewisse der aktuellen Bilder (I) durch frühere Bilder (IA), die vorher aufgezeichnet und an derselben Stelle aufgenommen wurden, zu ersetzen; und
    - nacheinander die aktuellen Bilder und die früheren Ersatzbilder anzuzeigen, um durch die Korrelation der aktuellen und früheren Bilder die Erfassung der Ziele zu ermöglichen,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass da diese Ziele improvisierte explosive Geräte oder dergleichen sind, die teilweise oder zur Gänze auf einer Strecke oder in der Nähe derselben versteckt sind, und das Verfahren von einem auf dem Weg fahrenden Fahrzeug aus eingesetzt wird, dieses Verfahren ferner darin besteht:
    - vor der Anzeige der aktuellen und früheren Bilder die geographische Position der aktuellen (I) und darauf folgenden früheren Bilder (IA) neu zu justieren, so dass die Fixpunkte der aufeinanderfolgenden Bilder zusammenfallen; und
    - die vorher aufgezeichneten früheren Bilder (IA) durch die aktuellen Bilder (I), die kontinuierlich geliefert werden und für die Fahrstrecke repräsentativ sind, zu aktualisieren.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es darin besteht, jedes zweite aktuelle Bild (I) durch ein früheres Bild (IA) zu ersetzen und nacheinander die aktuellen und früheren Bilder, die sich auf diese Weise abwechseln, anzuzeigen.
  3. System zur Erfassung von improvisierten explosiven Geräten oder dergleichen, das dazu bestimmt ist, das Verfahren, wie nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2 definiert, einzusetzen, umfassend:
    - mindestens eine Bildaufnahmequelle (3), die auf dem Fahrzeug (2), das auf der Strecke fährt, montiert ist und die aktuellen Bilder (I) desselben liefert;
    - eine Datenbasis (4) der vorher aufgezeichneten früheren Bilder (IA) der Strecke;
    - eine Bildbearbeitungsvorrichtung (5) in Echtzeit, mit der die Bildaufnahmequelle und die Datenbasis verbunden sind, und die mindestens gewisse der aktuellen Bilder durch frühere Bilder aus der Datenbasis, die an derselben Stelle der Strecke aufgenommen wurden, ersetzt; und
    - eine Anzeigevorrichtung (7) der aktuellen und früheren Bilder, die auf diese Weise durch die Bearbeitungsvorrichtung (5) kombiniert wurden,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es Folgendes umfasst:
    - ein Mittel (6) zum Nachjustieren der geographischen Position von zwei aufeinanderfolgenden aktuellen bzw. früheren Bildern; und
    - eine Verbindung (8) zwischen der Bildaufnahmequelle (3) und der Datenbasis (4), um die früheren Bilder (IA) der Datenbasis (4) durch die von der Quelle (3) aufgenommenen aktuellen Bilder (I) zu aktualisieren.
  4. System nach dem vorhergehenden Anspruch,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Bearbeitungsvorrichtung (5) vom Typ mit Bildersatz ist, wobei jedes zweite aktuelle Bild, das von der Quelle aufgenommen wird, durch ein früheres Bild aus der Datenbasis ersetzt wird, so dass auf der Anzeigevorrichtung (7) eine alternierende Aufeinanderfolge der aktuellen (I) und früheren Bilder (IA) angezeigt wird.
  5. System nach einem der Ansprüche 3 oder 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Bildaufnahmequelle (3) eine Kamera (3A) ist, und die Anzeigevorrichtung (7) ein Monitor (7A) ist.
  6. System nach einem der Ansprüche 3 bis 5,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Datenbasis (4) von früheren Bildern Bilder enthält, die von derselben Bildaufnahmequelle (3) geliefert wurden.
  7. System nach einem der Ansprüche 3 bis 6,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Datenbasis (4) zwischen mehreren Fahrzeugen aufgeteilt ist.
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