Morphological filtering and target tracking for vision-based UAS sense and avoid

2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 430-440

  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

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; ALGORITHMS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; RESEARCH; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

AEROSPACE RESEARCH; ANGULAR POSITIONS; DETECTION AND TRACKING ALGORITHMS; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; OBSTACLE DETECTION; REGIONS OF INTEREST; TRACKING ACCURACY;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 84904569501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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