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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

3D object pose estimation using multi-objective quaternion learning

C Papaioannidis, I Pitas - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a framework is proposed for object recognition and pose estimation from color
images using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). 3D object pose estimation along with …

Deep Reinforcement Learning with semi-expert distillation for autonomous UAV cinematography

A Sochopoulos, I Mademlis… - … on Multimedia and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or drones) have revolutionized modern media
production. Being rapidly deployable" flying cameras", they can easily capture aesthetically …

AUTH-Persons: A dataset for detecting humans in crowds from aerial views

C Symeonidis, I Mademlis, I Pitas… - … Conference on Image …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in artificial intelligence, control and sensing technologies have facilitated
the development of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Detecting humans from …