How to choose the best embedded processing platform for on-board UAV image processing?

VISAPP 2015 - 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications; VISIGRAPP, Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 377-386

  Hulens, Dries ^a   Verbeke, Jon ^a   Goedemé, Toon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Flight time estimation; On board; Power estimation; Real time; Speed estimation; UAV; Vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VISION;

FLIGHT TIME; ON-BOARD; POWER ESTIMATIONS; REAL TIME; SPEED ESTIMATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84939475365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0005359403770386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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