Image based meteor detection and path estimation

Reliable detection of meteor streaks in video recordings is of great importance for numerous scientific and educational purposes. In this paper, a novel method for meteor detection and path estimation in stacked images is proposed. The method is based on a four stage pipeline. Additionally, a dataset is created which can be used for evaluation of different meteor detection algorithms. The proposed method has a high efficiency with 90% accuracy and 95% sensitivity regarding image classification in terms of meteor presence in image. The proposed method achieves a high percentage (~93%) in meteor streak localization and path estimation as well.