A survey of safe landing zone detection techniques for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

MS Alam, J Oluoch - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
The age of automation is upon us. Few decades earlier, nearly all the flying vehicles were
human-controlled. Nowadays, almost every air vehicle is partially automated or getting …

Autonomous UAV cinematography: A tutorial and a formalized shot-type taxonomy

I Mademlis, N Nikolaidis, A Tefas, I Pitas… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The emerging field of autonomous UAV cinematography is examined through a tutorial for
non-experts, which also presents the required underlying technologies and connections with …

High-level multiple-UAV cinematography tools for covering outdoor events

I Mademlis, V Mygdalis, N Nikolaidis… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camera-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or “drones,” are a recent addition to
standard audiovisual shooting technologies. As drone cinematography is expected to further …

Embedded UAV real-time visual object detection and tracking

P Nousi, I Mademlis, I Karakostas… - … Conference on Real …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of camera-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or “drones”) for a wide
range of aerial video capturing applications, including media production, surveillance …

Fast CNN-based single-person 2D human pose estimation for autonomous systems

C Papaioannidis, I Mademlis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for 2D human
pose estimation from RGB images that balances between high 2D human pose/skeleton …

A multiple-UAV architecture for autonomous media production

I Mademlis, A Torres-González, J Capitán… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Cinematography with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an emerging
technology promising to revolutionize media production. On the one hand, manually …

Autonomous UAV safety by visual human crowd detection using multi-task deep neural networks

C Papaioannidis, I Mademlis… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camera-equipped UAVs, or drones, are increasingly employed in a wide range of
applications. Thus, ensuring their safe flight in areas containing people is a top priority. In …

An overview of hand gesture languages for autonomous UAV handling

F Patrona, I Mademlis, I Pitas - 2021 Aerial Robotic Systems …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camera-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or drones) have revolutionized
several application domains, with a steadily increasing degree of cognitive autonomy in …

Vision-based drone control for autonomous UAV cinematography

I Mademlis, C Symeonidis, A Tefas, I Pitas - Multimedia Tools and …, 2024 - Springer
One of the most important aesthetic concepts in autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) cinematography is the UAV/Camera Motion Type (CMT), describing the desired UAV …

Computational UAV cinematography for intelligent shooting based on semantic visual analysis

F Patrona, I Mademlis, A Tefas… - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Audiovisual coverage of sports events using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming
increasingly popular. Intelligent audiovisual (A/V) shooting tools, accurately identifying the …