Computer vision for autonomous UAV flight safety: An overview and a vision-based safe landing pipeline example

E Kakaletsis, C Symeonidis, M Tzelepi… - Acm Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen an unprecedented spread of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or
“drones”), which are highly useful for both civilian and military applications. Flight safety is a …

Towards fully autonomous UAVs: A survey

T Elmokadem, AV Savkin - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

A Al-Kaff, D Martin, F Garcia, A de la Escalera… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a complete review of computer vision algorithms and vision-based
intelligent applications, that are developed in the field of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

Towards vision-based safe landing for an autonomous helicopter

PJ Garcia-Pardo, GS Sukhatme… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2002 - Elsevier
Autonomous landing is a challenging problem for aerial robots. An autonomous landing
manoeuver depends largely on two capabilities: the decision of where to land and the …

Vision-based autonomous UAV navigation and landing for urban search and rescue

M Mittal, R Mohan, W Burgard, A Valada - The International Symposium of …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with bioradars are a life-saving
technology that can enable identification of survivors under collapsed buildings in the …

Applications, databases and open computer vision research from drone videos and images: a survey

Y Akbari, N Almaadeed, S Al-Maadeed… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2021 - Springer
Analyzing videos and images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles or aerial drones is an
emerging application attracting significant attention from researchers in various areas of …

Towards a robust aerial cinematography platform: Localizing and tracking moving targets in unstructured environments

R Bonatti, C Ho, W Wang, S Choudhury… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones for aerial cinematography has revolutionized several applications and
industries that require live and dynamic camera viewpoints such as entertainment, sports …

Autonomous UAV cinematography: A tutorial and a formalized shot-type taxonomy

I Mademlis, N Nikolaidis, A Tefas, I Pitas… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The emerging field of autonomous UAV cinematography is examined through a tutorial for
non-experts, which also presents the required underlying technologies and connections with …

Towards" drone-borne" disaster management: future application scenarios

TJ Tanzi, M Chandra, J Isnard, D Camara… - … VIII (Volume III-8), 2016 - hal.univ-reunion.fr
Information plays a key role in crisis management and relief efforts for natural disaster
scenarios. Given their flight properties, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) provide new and …

Survey on computer vision for UAVs: Current developments and trends

C Kanellakis, G Nikolakopoulos - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2017 - Springer
During last decade the scientific research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicless (UAVs) increased
spectacularly and led to the design of multiple types of aerial platforms. The major challenge …