Field-of-view, detection range, and false alarm trade-offs in vision-based aircraft detection

28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, ICAS 2012

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 3807-3814

  Lai, John ^a   Ford, Jason J ^a   Mejias, Luis ^a   Wainwright, Alex ^a   O'Shea, Peter ^a   Walker, Rodney ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collision avoidance; Computer vision; Sense and avoid

Indexed keywords

DETECTION RANGE; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; FALSE ALARM RATE; FALSE ALARMS; FIELD OF VIEWS; LEVELS OF DETECTIONS; SENSE-AND-AVOID; VISION BASED;

AERODYNAMICS; CAMERAS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; ERRORS;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

EID: 84878899591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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