Flight Pattern Analysis : Prediction of future activity to calculate the possibility of collision between flying objects and structures

Abstract: This report shows that a reliable motion detection is needed to make an accurate prediction of future activity. Several experiments are carried out to obtain information about the object ́s behaviour and the best settings for the motion detection. A moving object is captured using two cameras, for two image sequences, and motion detection is applied to the stereoscopic data. Background subtraction algorithm followed by image segmentation algorithm, morphology algorithm, and blob analy- sis are performed on the images to find the coordinates for the centroid of the moving object. Two models are created to make a statistical inter- pretation of the data: one model for the height over the width and one statistical model for the distance between the cameras and the moving object over the width. The mean and standard deviation values are calculated to make a reliable interpretation of the captured images and the moving object. The Kalman filter is used for the prediction of future activity. The filters of the statistical models are trained with the first coordinates of the detected balls, and the next coordinates are predicted.