Image Processing in Thermal Cameras

In article a general description of thermographic camera structure is shown alongside with outline of signal processing operations in typical observational infrared camera. There are presented examples of digital image processing engine featuring flexible and fast implementation. There are presented also developed by authors detection and object tracking methods on thermographic video streams. Methods were tested and implemented in real life systems and experimentally verified. Based on these results, it turned out that a detection method is characterized by a high probability of detection at a relatively low probability of false alarm, and the method of tracking allows effective determination of the trajectory of moving objects in thermographic images.