Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS/Drones) are great resources for search and rescue (SAR)
operations as they allow for remote examination of vast areas. This paper presents a smart …

Urban search and rescue missions require rapid intervention to locate victims and survivors
in the affected environments. To facilitate this activity, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) …

Many people go missing in the wild every year. In this paper, the Search and Rescue (SAR)
mission is conducted using a novel system comprising an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) …

People enjoy spending time in the wilderness for numerous reasons. However, they
occasionally get lost or injured, and their survival depends on being efficiently found and …

Aerial images from drones have been used to detect and track suspects in the crowd for the
public safety purpose. However, using a single drone for human identification and …

Since the past decade the use of autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic systems for
human assistance has gained immense significance in the fields of defense, medical …

Natural disasters affect millions of people every year. Finding missing persons in the
shortest possible time is of crucial importance to reduce the death toll. This task is especially …

Detection of humans accurately in aerial images is critical for various applications such as
surveillance, detecting and tracking athletes on sports fields, and search and rescue …

Although Faster R-CNN has excellent performance in object detection, it still has some
difficulties in detecting small targets and slightly overlapped targets in UAV (Unmanned …

Search and rescue missions during and after disasters require all efforts and high financial
expenses. Rapid locating of wounded and lost individuals contributes in directing the …