A real-time method to detect and track moving objects (DATMO) from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using a single camera

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1090-1111

  Rodríguez Canosa, Gonzalo R ^a   Thomas, Stephen ^b   del Cerro, Jaime ^a   Barrientos, Antonio ^a   MacDonald, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

DATMO; Homography based optical flow; Kalman Filter Tracking; Optical flow; Surveillance; UAV

Indexed keywords

CAMERA MOTIONS; DATMO; DYNAMIC OBJECTS; FILTER TRACKING; FILTERING PROCEDURES; LOW-FREQUENCY VIBRATION; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MOVING OBJECTS; POSE VARIATION; QUADROTORS; SINGLE CAMERAS; STATIC FEATURES; VIDEO FRAME;

CAMERAS; OPTICAL FLOWS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84861310862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs40401090     Document Type: Article

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