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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2009.37.3.267

Vision-based Target Tracking for UAV and Relative Depth Estimation using Optical Flow  

Jo, Seon-Yeong (부산대학교 항공우주공학과 대학원)
Kim, Jong-Hun (부산대학교 항공우주공학과 대학원)
Kim, Jung-Ho (부산대학교 항공우주공학과 대학원)
Lee, Dae-Woo (부산대학교 항공우주공학과)
Cho, Kyeum-Rae (부산대학교 항공우주공학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.37, no.3, 2009 , pp. 267-274 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are expected much as the Unmanned Systems for various missions. These missions are often based on the Vision System. Especially, missions such as surveillance and pursuit have a process which is carried on through the transmitted vision data from the UAV. In case of small UAVs, monocular vision is often used to consider weights and expenses. Research of missions performance using the monocular vision is continued but, actually, ground and target model have difference in distance from the UAV. So, 3D distance measurement is still incorrect. In this study, Mean-Shift Algorithm, Optical Flow and Subspace Method are posed to estimate the relative depth. Mean-Shift Algorithm is used for target tracking and determining Region of Interest (ROI). Optical Flow includes image motion information using pixel intensity. After that, Subspace Method computes the translation and rotation of image and estimates the relative depth. Finally, we present the results of this study using images obtained from the UAV experiments.
Keywords
Optical Flow; Relative Depth; Target Tracking; Mean-Shift Algorithm; Subspace Method;
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