Method for Tracking Moving Targets

Moving target indication (MTI) methodologies are essential tools to detect, locate, recognize, and track the moving targets of interest in a movie or video sequence. Different MTI methodologies can be characterized and compared by their hit rates (percentage of all available targets of interest detected and located), recognition rates (percentage of each of the existing target types correctly recognized), false-alarm rates (average number of false alarms reported per video frame), efficiency of operation (how much computational resources and time is needed for a given set of data), and robustness (how well the methodology is able to handle or adapt to different types of data). An ideal MTI methodology should generally be able to detect, recognize, and track all targets of interest without incurring an unacceptable number of false alarms under a very stringent computational requirement.