Tracking of Ballastic Missiles and Velocity Measurement using Frame Distance Manipulation

In order to measure the velocity of a missile, several models have been discussed in this paper. It deals with the tracking and following of single/multiple missile in a sequence of frames and the velocity of the missile is determined. Algorithms have been developed for improving the image quality, segmentation, background subtraction, feature extraction and determining the velocity. Segmentation is performed to detect the object after reducing the noise from that scene. The object is tracked by plotting a rectangular bounding box around it in each frame. The velocity of the missile is determined by calculating the distance in the form of pixel that the object moved in a sequence of frames with respect to the frame rate and the total time of video is recorded. A simulink blockset has also been modeled to track the missile in this paper.