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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been deployed in a variety of applications like remote traffic surveillance, dangerous area observation, and mine removal, since it is able to overcome the limitations of ground vehicles. It can also be used for traffic controlling, border patrolling, accident and natural disaster monitoring for search and rescue purpose. There are two important tasks in the UAV system, automatic stabilization and target tracking. Automatic stabilization makes a UAV fully autonomous, while target tracking alleviates the overhead of a manual system. In order to address these, we present computer vision based horizon detection and target tracking for the videos captured by UAV camera. The proposed horizon detection algorithm is an enhancement of the Cornall’s Theorem and our target tracking employs optical flow. The results of both real and simulated videos show that the proposed algorithms are promising.
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Chen, Y., Abushakra, A., Lee, J. (2011). Vision-Based Horizon Detection and Target Tracking for UAVs. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24031-7_31
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