An adaptive neighborhood-based search enhanced artificial ecosystem optimizer for UCAV path planning

Y Niu, X Yan, Y Wang, Y Niu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Path planning is an essential component of the unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV)
system and is the precondition for achieving tasks such as aerial reconnaissance …

[HTML][HTML] First successful rescue of a lost person using the human detection system: A case study from Beskid Niski (SE Poland)

T Niedzielski, M Jurecka, B Miziński, W Pawul, T Motyl - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in search and rescue methods include the use of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), to carry out aerial monitoring of terrains to spot lost individuals. To date …

PETNet: A YOLO-based prior enhanced transformer network for aerial image detection

T Wang, Z Ma, T Yang, S Zou - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been applied to inspect in various scenarios due to
their high efficiency, low cost, and excellent mobility. However, the objects in aerial images …

MOBDrone: A drone video dataset for man overboard rescue

D Cafarelli, L Ciampi, L Vadicamo, C Gennaro… - … Conference on Image …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) equipped with cameras can play an
essential role in speeding up the identification and rescue of people who have fallen …

Search and rescue with airborne optical sectioning

DC Schedl, I Kurmi, O Bimber - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
In the future, rescuing lost, ill or injured persons will increasingly be carried out by
autonomous drones. However, discovering humans in densely forested terrain is …

[HTML][HTML] An adaptive multi-level quantization-based reinforcement learning model for enhancing UAV landing on moving targets

N Abo Mosali, SS Shamsudin, SA Mostafa, O Alfandi… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a moving platform is an
essential functionality in various UAV-based applications. It can be added to a teleoperation …

A comparison between various human detectors and CNN-based feature extractors for human activity recognition via aerial captured video sequences

N Aldahoul, HA Karim, AQM Sabri, MJT Tan… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human detection and activity recognition (HDAR) in videos plays an important role in
various real-life applications. Recently, object detection methods have been used to detect …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing water safety: exploring recent technological approaches for drowning detection

S Jalalifar, A Belford, E Erfani, A Razmjou, R Abbassi… - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Drowning poses a significant threat, resulting in unexpected injuries and fatalities. To
promote water sports activities, it is crucial to develop surveillance systems that enhance …

Tracking‐DOSeqSLAM: A dynamic sequence‐based visual place recognition paradigm

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis, A Gasteratos… - IET Computer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) refers to a process that permits a mobile
robot to build up a map of the environment and, at the same time, to use it to compute its …

Low-power deep learning edge computing platform for resource constrained lightweight compact UAVs

A Albanese, M Nardello, D Brunelli - Sustainable Computing: Informatics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which can operate autonomously in dynamic
and complex environments, are becoming increasingly common. Deep learning techniques …