面向双观测站定位系统的CCD标定技术

标定是立体视觉测量应用中的关键环节,采用有效的标定方法将获得更加精确的立体视觉测量结果。以双观测站定位系统为研究对象,结合摄像机针孔成像原理,在Zhang平面模板标定基础上进一步改进,实现了单摄像机、双目CCD以及双观测站系统之间的标定。详细阐述了系统坐标转换原理、分布式的参数优化方法以及标定实现过程。试验表明,该标定过程能够精确、有效地获得摄像机参数以及观测站位置关系,为进一步精确定位解算提供了有效的数据支持。     

基于菱形模板的摄像机标定方法

在传统的基于平面模板的摄像机标定算法和基于3个非线性点在特定运动下的标定算法的基础上,提出了一种基于菱形模板的摄像机标定算法,本算法只需要知道菱形的一个夹角就能标定出摄像机的内参数矩阵。弥补了传统算法在标定时需要知道特征点世界坐标的不足,减少了制定模板世界坐标带来的误差;同时本算法不需要菱形特征点做任何运动,避免了旋转特征点带来的人为误差。该算法的标定精度仅取决于特征点检测的精度,实验结果验证了该文算法的有效性。     

RGB-D传感器的标定实验分析

分析了RGB-D传感器的标定模型及标定方法,利用标定棋盘和Matlab工具箱对RGB-D传感器进行了标定。采用摄像机标定方法计算了彩色摄像机和深度摄像机的初始化参数,根据标定棋盘和标定板的共面关系计算了相对位姿的初始估计值,并采用非线性最小化方法对标定参数进行了优化。实验结果表明:标定后的彩色图像和深度图像的重投影误差较小,深度测量不确定性标准差比标定前约减小了1/2,有效地提高了RGB-D传感器的测量精度。     

基于OpenCV的CCD摄像机标定方法

计算机视觉在工业,农业,军事,交通等领域都有着广泛应用。摄像机标定是视觉系统的重要环节,也是研究的关键领域。以摄像机标定技术为研究对象,选取针孔成像模型,简述了世界坐标系、摄像机坐标系和图像坐标系及其相互间的位置关系,对标定过程进行了深入研究。特别地,为提高标定精度,充分考虑了透镜径向和切向畸变影响及其求解方法,制作了棋盘格平面标定模板,基于开放计算机视觉函数库(OpenCV)实现了摄像机标定。该标定算法能够充分发挥OpenCV函数库功能,对于图像处理与计算机视觉方面的应用设计具有实用价值。实验结果表明该方法取得了较高精度,能够满足视觉检测或其他计算机视觉系统的应用需要。     

不同时间信息条件下多目轨迹交会测量点目标运动的方法

针对多相机对点目标的运动轨迹测量,提出不同时间信息条件下的多目轨迹交会法。对点目标运动轨迹进行时间多项式参数化描述,再将多个相机观察目标的系列视线与目标的参数化运动轨迹进行交会,通过最小化物方残差,确定出目标的运动轨迹。相对于传统的多目交会测量模式,本方法不仅能够有效地提高测量精度,而且能够在多相机之间观测不同步,或者时间未对准,甚至无时间信息的情况下仍得到目标的运动轨迹参数。相对于单相机测量模式时要求相机必须运动,多目情况下不要求相机自身运动。仿真实验和真实实验验证了该方法的有效性和高精度。     

基于计算机视觉的目标方位测量方法

以显著性标志物中的关键点为目标,探讨了一种基于计算机视觉的目标方位测量方法。在光学成像原理基础上,推算出目标二维成像点坐标与其空间三维坐标之间的映射关系,基于计算机视觉理论建立了测量目标方位的数学模型。考虑透镜畸变,基于Zhang平面标定法完成对摄像机参数的标定。对目标二维图像采用Harris算法进行特征角点检测,并通过亚像素技术对检测的目标特征点进行定位。实验结果表明,该方法能够有效提取被测目标特征角点并获取其像素坐标,用于测量目标相对视觉传感器的方位信息可达到较高精度,具备良好的实用价值。     

空中目标运动参数实时测量系统

为了实现对飞机等远距离空中目标运动参数的实时测量,设计了目标自动跟踪测量系统,并对该系统的硬、软件组成及关键技术进行了研究。组建验证样机,进行软件框架设计及功能模块分析,通过实测实验详细测试了系统的工作性能。静态验证实验结果表明:测距结果稳定在1mm以内,方位测量结果稳定在5″以内。动态验证实验结果表明:对运动目标的实时测距误差为2mm,实时测距频率为5Hz;方位测量误差为0.05°,姿态测量误差维持在0.2°以内,方位和姿态实时测量频率均为20Hz。因此,系统满足空中目标运动参数稳定可靠、高精度的自动实时测量需求。     

未知环境下飞行器视觉/惯导组合测速测高方法

针对未知环境下飞行器导航问题,提出一种基于视觉/惯导组合的测速测高方法。该方法构建包含前若干个成像时刻飞行器位置的惯导扩展状态方程,并采用一种基于摄像机两视图对极几何约束的线性视觉量测方程,通过卡尔曼滤波进行惯导速度修正,在此基础上利用多帧成像的立体视觉交会估计地面特征点坐标,进而得到飞行器相对高度。以飞行器典型巡航轨迹进行的仿真实验表明,该方法能够有效修正飞行器速度和相对高度误差,给出不随时间漂移的速度和相对高度测量结果,并很好地抑制飞行器位置误差的发散。     

利用星角距不变性标定星敏感器内部参数

提出了一种恒星角距不变的星敏感器内部参数的地面标定方法。较常见的星角距的标定方法不同的是,该方法利用对在0°附近的角度变化较敏感的恒星角距的正弦值建立观测方程;采用两步法分别估计焦距、主点和高阶畸变系数,并采用迭代优化的方法,获得最优估计值。为了确保标定精度,对观测时刻的导航星进行了视位置的修正。实验结果表明,采用星角距的正弦值建立观测方程,估计精度较高,采用考虑高阶畸变的改进正弦法标定后的星角距误差的均方根值为2.2×10-5rad。     

用神经网络变易有效焦距的摄像机标定法

针对传统摄像机标定中由于像差等非线性因素的影响造成结果精度和稳定性不高且算法复杂的特点 ,提出了用 4层前向神经网络模型变易摄像机横纵向有效焦距的方法。给出了摄像机标定结果和用标定后的摄像机进行三维立体测量的结果 ,并与传统方法作了对比。结果表明 ,基于神经网络的摄像机标定方法可以获得比传统方法更高的精度和稳定性     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.