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Deep Learning for Moving Object Detection and Tracking from a Single Camera in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2018.10.IMAWM-466  Published OnlineJanuary 2018
Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) gain popularity in a wide range of civilian and military applications. Such emerging interest is pushing the development of effective collision avoidance systems which are especially crucial in a crowded airspace setting. Because of cost and weight limitations associated with UAVs' payload, the optical sensors, simply digital cameras, are widely used for collision avoidance systems in UAVs. This requires moving object detection and tracking algorithms from a video, which can be run on board efficiently. In this paper, we present a new approach to detect and track UAVs from a single camera mounted on a different UAV. Initially, we estimate background motions via a perspective transformation model and then identify moving object candidates in the background subtracted image through deep learning classifier trained on manually labeled datasets. For each moving object candidates, we find spatio-temporal traits through optical flow matching and then prune them based on their motion patterns compared with the background. Kalman filter is applied on pruned moving objects to improve temporal consistency among the candidate detections. The algorithm was validated on video datasets taken from a UAV. Results demonstrate that our algorithm can effectively detect and track small UAVs with limited computing resources.

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Dong Hye Ye, Jing Li, Qiulin Chen, Juan Wachs, Charles Bouman, "Deep Learning for Moving Object Detection and Tracking from a Single Camera in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)in Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Imaging and Multimedia Analytics in a Web and Mobile World,  2018,  pp 466-1 - 466-6,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2018.10.IMAWM-466

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