Real time object detection for an unmanned aerial vehicle using an FPGA based vision system

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Price ◽  
J. Pyke ◽  
D. Ashiri ◽  
T. Cornall
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

scholarly journals Real-Time Detection of Ground Objects Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing with Deep Learning: Application in Excavator Detection for Pipeline Safety

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingxuan Meng ◽  
Zhixing Peng ◽  
Ji Zhou ◽  
Jirong Zhang ◽  
Zhenyu Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Object Detection ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Real Time Detection ◽  
Pipeline Safety

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing and deep learning provide a practical approach to object detection. However, most of the current approaches for processing UAV remote-sensing data cannot carry out object detection in real time for emergencies, such as firefighting. This study proposes a new approach for integrating UAV remote sensing and deep learning for the real-time detection of ground objects. Excavators, which usually threaten pipeline safety, are selected as the target object. A widely used deep-learning algorithm, namely You Only Look Once V3, is first used to train the excavator detection model on a workstation and then deployed on an embedded board that is carried by a UAV. The recall rate of the trained excavator detection model is 99.4%, demonstrating that the trained model has a very high accuracy. Then, the UAV for an excavator detection system (UAV-ED) is further constructed for operational application. UAV-ED is composed of a UAV Control Module, a UAV Module, and a Warning Module. A UAV experiment with different scenarios was conducted to evaluate the performance of the UAV-ED. The whole process from the UAV observation of an excavator to the Warning Module (350 km away from the testing area) receiving the detection results only lasted about 1.15 s. Thus, the UAV-ED system has good performance and would benefit the management of pipeline safety.

scholarly journals Airlight (A UAVs based light guidance and search light system)

2022 ◽  
Vol 2161 (1) ◽  
pp. 012057
Author(s):  
Aman Paleja ◽  
Shreyash Kumar ◽  
Amit Choraria ◽  
Arjun Hariharan ◽  
Atharv Tendolkar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Power Efficient ◽  
Light System ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Light Guidance

Abstract Airlight, an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) based real time focus and searching light system is a proposed solution which ensures guiding people safely on their path during a dark environment is one less thing to worry about. It is designed to identify a person through algorithms of object detection and also through usage of IoT and sensorics to enable power efficient use of spotlight and hence autonomously guiding people on their path during night-time. Airlight proves to be useful in various sectors such as helping farmers to look after their fields during night-time, security purposes, guiding construction workers while lifting heavy objects, military applications etc.

scholarly journals Pemanfaatan Metode Fotogrametri untuk Pengukuran Garis Pantai dan Identifikasi Objek-Objek Tematik dengan Menggunakan Wahana Uav (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) (Studi Kasus Pengukuran Garis Pantai di Pangkalan TNI AL Pondok Dayung

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Adhyta Harfan ◽  
Dipo Yudhatama ◽  
Imam Bachrodin
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Control Point ◽  
Ground Control ◽  
Ground Control Point ◽  
Real Time Kinematic ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

Metode Fotogrametri telah banyak digunakan dalam survei dan pemetaan. Seiring dengan kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, metode fotogrametri saat ini berbasiskan pesawat tanpa awak atau yang lebih dikenal dengan UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). Kelebihan metode fotogrametri berbasiskan UAV untuk pengukuran garis pantai adalah memiliki resolusi spasial yang sangat tinggi dan dapat menjagkau daerah-daerah yang sulit dan berbahaya. Di samping itu juga dapat memberikan data foto udara terkini dengan sekala detail. Dalam penelitian ini membandingkan ketelitian horisontal antara hasil pengukuran garis pantai menggunakan metode fotogrametri berbasiskan UAV secara rektifikasi dengan GCP (Ground Control Point) maupun secara PPK (Post Processed Kinematic) dengan pengukuran garis pantai metode GNSS RTK (Real Time Kinematic). Hasil perhitungan ketelitian horisontal mengacu pada standar publikasi IHO S-44 tentang pengukuran garis pantai. Pemotretan dilakukan dengan ketinggian terbang 180 m, dengan tampalan depan dan samping 80%. Hasil perhitungan ketelitian horisontal foto udara terektifikasi 5 GCP, foto udara PPK dan foto udara PPK terektifikasi 1 GCP terhadap pengukuran garis pantai dengan metode GNSS RTK diperoleh nilai standar deviasi (σ) dan 95% selang kepercayaan (CI95%) masing-masing sebagai berikut: σ5gcp=10,989 cm dengan CI95% 16.8 cm < μ < 21.2 cm , σppk=26,066 cm dengan CI95% 26.5 cm < μ < 37 cm dan σppk1gcp=10,378 cm dengan CI95% 15.6 cm < μ < 19.8 cm. Kemudian terdapat 10 objek tematik berdasarkan Peta Laut Nomor 1 yang dapat diinterpretasi pada hasil orthomosaic foto udara.

scholarly journals Utilizing drone technology in the civil engineering

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Matúš Tkáč ◽  
Peter Mésároš
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Aerial Images ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Aerial Photogrammetry ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

Abstract An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs), also known as drone technology, is used for different types of application in the civil engineering. Drones as a tools that increase communication between construction participants, improves site safety, uses topographic measurements of large areas, with using principles of aerial photogrammetry is possible to create buildings aerial surveying, bridges, roads, highways, saves project time and costs, etc. The use of UAVs in the civil engineering can brings many benefits; creating real-time aerial images from the building objects, overviews reveal assets and challenges, as well as the broad lay of the land, operators can share the imaging with personnel on site, in headquarters and with sub-contractors, planners can meet virtually to discuss project timing, equipment needs and challenges presented by the terrain. The aim of this contribution is to create a general overview of the use of UAVs in the civil engineering. The contribution also contains types of UAVs used for construction purposes, their advantages and also disadvantages.

scholarly journals UAV-YOLO: Small Object Detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Perspective

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingjie Liu ◽  
Xianhao Wang ◽  
Anjian Zhou ◽  
Xiuyuan Fu ◽  
Yiwei Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Object ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Public Dataset ◽  
Small Object Detection ◽  
Level Performance

Object detection, as a fundamental task in computer vision, has been developed enormously, but is still challenging work, especially for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) perspective due to small scale of the target. In this study, the authors develop a special detection method for small objects in UAV perspective. Based on YOLOv3, the Resblock in darknet is first optimized by concatenating two ResNet units that have the same width and height. Then, the entire darknet structure is improved by increasing convolution operation at an early layer to enrich spatial information. Both these two optimizations can enlarge the receptive filed. Furthermore, UAV-viewed dataset is collected to UAV perspective or small object detection. An optimized training method is also proposed based on collected UAV-viewed dataset. The experimental results on public dataset and our collected UAV-viewed dataset show distinct performance improvement on small object detection with keeping the same level performance on normal dataset, which means our proposed method adapts to different kinds of conditions.

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