A method and system for identification of obstacles near railways and for providing alarm to an operator of a train if obstacles constitute threat to the train are disclosed. The system comprise IR sensor disposed at the front of the train facing the direction of travel. The IR sensor receives images of the rails in...

Systems and methods for rails and obstacles detection based on forward-looking electrooptical imaging, novel system architecture and novel scene analysis and image processing are disclosed. The processing solution utilizes a deep learning semantic scene segmentation approach based on a rails and switches states dete...

A system for detection and identification of objects and obstacles near between or on railway comprise several forward-looking imagers adapted to cover each different range forward and preferably to be sensitive each to different wavelength of radiation including visible light LWIR and SWIR. The substantially homoge...

Generally, an optical unit for collecting light from small and/or distant objects is disclosed. The optical unit may include a front lens having a diameter of at least 150 mm and at least one additional lens in association with the front lens, wherein the front lens is made of chalcogenide glass. In some embodiments...

An optical system including one or more optical sensors and a processing unit capable of performing built-int tests of the optical sensor(s) and methods thereof are disclosed. The processing unit includes a built-in test module configured to detect a reduction of an optical quality of at least some of the images gen...

Generally, a system including an imaging device and a processing unit is disclosed. The imaging device may be configured to acquire a plurality of datasets of corresponding plurality of image frames by performing corresponding plurality of image frame handling cycles. The processing unit may be configured to define ...