This paper presents four vision-based tracking system architectures for marine surface
objects using a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a thermal camera mounted …

This paper presents a vision-based tracking system for marine surface objects utilizing
images captured in a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a retractable pan/tilt …

This article concerns tracking of floating objects using fixed-wing UAVs with a monocular
thermal camera. Target tracking from an agile aerial vehicle is challenging because …

This paper develops a vision-based tracking system in unmanned aerial vehicles based on
thermal images. The tracking system are tailored toward objects at sea and consists of three …

In this paper a multiple object detection, recognition, and tracking system for unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been studied. The system can be implemented on any UAVs …

This paper develops a framework for ground target localization and tracking in a riverine
environment from a UAV with a two axis gimbaled camera. Accurately determining the …

This paper proposes a visual navigation system for an unmanned aerial vehicle to track a
moving ground object in a GPS-denied environment. Image processing combines a target …

This paper presents a vision-based estimation and guidance method to enable a UAV to fly
a circular orbit around a moving target. The target motion is estimated using a Kalman filter …

This paper presents the developments of flight hardware and software for a multirotor
unmanned aerial vehicle, performing autonomous take-off and landing on a moving vessel …

This paper addresses the development of a vision-based target tracking system for a small
unmanned air vehicle. The algorithm performs autonomous tracking of a moving target …