Flight performance assessment of vision-based detection and tracking for UAS sense and avoid

AIAA Infotech at Aerospace (I at A) Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fasano, Giancarmine ^a   Accardo, Domenico ^a   Tirri, Anna Elena ^a   Moccia, Antonio ^a   de Lellis, Ettore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; INTRUDER DETECTION; MATCHING-BASED ALGORITHM; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGIONS OF INTEREST; VISION-BASED DETECTION;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ALGORITHMS; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; RESEARCH; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TRACKING (POSITION);

INTRUSION DETECTION;

EID: 84883718541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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