High-fidelity real-time maritime scene rendering

Hawjye Shyu; Thomas M. Taczak; Kevin Cox; Robert Gover; Carlos Maraviglia; Colin Cahill

doi:10.1117/12.884522

13 May 2011 High-fidelity real-time maritime scene rendering

Hawjye Shyu, Thomas M. Taczak, Kevin Cox, Robert Gover, Carlos Maraviglia, Colin Cahill

Proceedings Volume 8015, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop XVI; 80150H (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884522
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The ability to simulate authentic engagements using real-world hardware is an increasingly important tool. For rendering maritime environments, scene generators must be capable of rendering radiometrically accurate scenes with correct temporal and spatial characteristics. When the simulation is used as input to real-world hardware or human observers, the scene generator must operate in real-time. This paper introduces a novel, real-time scene generation capability for rendering radiometrically accurate scenes of backgrounds and targets in maritime environments. The new model is an optimized and parallelized version of the US Navy CRUISE_Missiles rendering engine. It was designed to accept environmental descriptions and engagement geometry data from external sources, render a scene, transform the radiometric scene using the electro-optical response functions of a sensor under test, and output the resulting signal to real-world hardware. This paper reviews components of the scene rendering algorithm, and details the modifications required to run this code in real-time. A description of the simulation architecture and interfaces to external hardware and models is presented. Performance assessments of the frame rate and radiometric accuracy of the new code are summarized. This work was completed in FY10 under Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program (CTEIP) funding and will undergo a validation process in FY11.

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Hawjye Shyu, Thomas M. Taczak, Kevin Cox, Robert Gover, Carlos Maraviglia, and Colin Cahill "High-fidelity real-time maritime scene rendering", Proc. SPIE 8015, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop XVI, 80150H (13 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884522

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