The automation of the Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR) task aims for high levels of
understanding of various scenery. In addition, working in unfriendly and complex …

Toward the medical and living healthcare for the elderly and patients, fall from bed is a
critical accident that may lead to serious injuries. To alleviate this, an essential problem is to …

The interactions between humans and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), whose
applications are increasing in the civilian field rather than for military purposes, are a …

In this paper, we present a voice recognition based victim detection system using an
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). When a large-scale disaster such as a huge earthquake …

The protection of critical transportation assets and infrastructure is an important topic these
days. Transportation assets such as bridges, overpasses, dams and tunnels are vulnerable …

In this paper, a human–robot interaction system based on a novel combination of sensors is
proposed. It allows one person to interact with a humanoid social robot using natural body …

Human detection is a key ability to an increasing number of applications that operates in
human inhabited environments or needs to interact with a human user. Currently, most …

Capturing human motion in natural scenarios means moving motion capture out of the lab
and into the wild. Typical approaches rely on fixed, calibrated, cameras and reflective …

A generic and robust approach for the real-time detection of people and vehicles from an
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an important goal within the framework of fully …