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UWB-based system for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have penetrated multiple domains over the past years. In GNSS-denied or indoor environments, aerial robots require a robust and stable localization system, often with external feedback, in order to fly safely. Motion ca ...

2020

UAV-Based Situational Awareness System Using Deep Learning

Wenlong Deng

Situational awareness by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is important for many applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, and disaster response. In those applications, detecting and locating people and recognizing their actions in near real-time ...

2019

Smart Camera Architectures for Wireless and Multi-Sensor Vision Applications

Selman Ergünay

Advances in camera sensor technology and its manufacturing process now allow high quality image acquisition with low-cost devices. Moreover, the latest significant increase in computational capacity of the processing units enables incorporation of more com ...

EPFL2018

Obstacle detection for lake-deployed autonomous surface vehicles using RGB imagery

David Andrew Barry, Philippe Olivier Paccaud

We describe and test an obstacle-detection system for small, lake-deployed autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) that relies on a low-cost, consumer-grade camera and runs on a single-board computer. A key feature of lakes that must be accounted for is the fre ...

2018

Vision-based detection of aircrafts and UAVs

Artem Rozantsev

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are becoming increasingly popular for a broad variety of tasks ranging from aerial imagery to objects delivery. With the expansion of the areas, where drones can be efficiently used, the collision risk with other flying objects inc ...

EPFL2017

Detecting Flying Objects using a Single Moving Camera

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Artem Rozantsev

We propose an approach for detecting flying objects such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and aircrafts when they occupy a small portion of the field of view, possibly moving against complex backgrounds, and are filmed by a camera that itself moves. We a ...

2017

Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

The field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, is rapidly growing, both in terms of size and of number of applications. Civil applications range from mapping, inspection, search and rescue, taking aerial footage, to art show, entertain ...

EPFL2017

Combining Human Computing and Machine Learning to Make Sense of Big (Aerial) Data for Disaster Response

Stéphane Joost, Devis Tuia, Patrick Meier, Matthew Josef Parkan, Julien Briant, Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo

Aerial imagery captured via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is playing an increasingly important role in disaster response. Unlike satellite imagery, aerial imagery can be captured and processed within hours rather than days. In addition, the spatial resol ...

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc2016

3D Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Limited Field of View Constraints

Denis Gillet, Alcherio Martinoli, Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a significant field of research with numerous applications, ranging from mapping to surveillance. New applications, such as aerial delivery of goods, are expected to appear in the next years and will require mor ...

2016

Near-Infrared High-Resolution Real-Time Omnidirectional Imaging Platform for Drone Detection

Yusuf Leblebici, Vladan Popovic

Recent technological advancements in hardware systems have made higher quality cameras. State of the art panoramic systems use them to produce videos with a resolution of 9000 x 2400 pixels at a rate of 30 frames per second (fps).(1) Many modern applicatio ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Real-Time Omnidirectional Imaging System with Interconnected Network of Cameras

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Hossein Afshari, Vladan Popovic, Kerem Seyid

The Panoptic camera is an omnidirectional multi-aperture visual system which is realized by mounting multiple imaging sensors on a hemispherical frame. In this chapter, we will present a novel distributed and parallel implementation of the real-time omnidi ...

Springer-Verlag2015

Mapping with MAV: Experimental Study on the Contribution of Absolute and Relative Aerial Position Control

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

This study highlights the benefit of precise aerial position control in the context of mapping using frame-based imagery taken by small UAVs. We execute several flights with a custom Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) octocopter over a small calibration field equi ...

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences2014

Robust Real-time Pedestrians Detection in Urban Environments with a Network of Low Resolution Cameras

Michel Bierlaire, Pierre Vandergheynst, Alexandre Massoud Alahi

Detecting that pedestrians are present in front of a vehicle is highly desirable to avoid dangerous traffic situations. A novel vision-based system is presented to automatically detect far-away pedestrians with low-resolution cameras mounted in vehicles gi ...

Elsevier2014