Autonomous drones will play an essential role in human-machine teaming in future search
and rescue (SAR) missions. We present a prototype that finds people fully autonomously in …

Drone swarms can achieve tasks via collaboration that are impossible for single drones
alone. Synthetic aperture (SA) sensing is a signal processing technique that takes …

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 …

Fully autonomous drones have been demonstrated to find lost or injured persons under
strongly occluding forest canopy. Airborne optical sectioning (AOS), a novel synthetic …

Detecting and tracking moving targets through foliage is difficult, and for many cases even
impossible in regular aerial images and videos. We present an initial light-weight and drone …

In this article, we evaluate unsupervised anomaly detection methods in multispectral images
obtained with a wavelength-independent synthetic aperture sensing technique called …

We describe how a new and low-cost aerial scanning technique, airborne optical sectioning
(AOS), can support ornithologists in nesting observation. After capturing thermal and color …

The presence of foliage is a serious problem for target detection with drones in application
fields such as search and rescue, surveillance, early wildfire detection, or wildlife …

We present Inverse Airborne Optical Sectioning (IAOS), an optical analogy to Inverse
Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR). Moving targets, such as walking people, that are heavily …

We apply a multi-spectral (RGB and thermal) camera drone for synthetic aperture imaging to
computationally remove occluding vegetation for revealing hidden objects, as required in …