Autonomous drones will play an essential role in human-machine teaming in future search
and rescue (SAR) missions. We present a prototype that finds people fully autonomously in …

Drone swarms can achieve tasks via collaboration that are impossible for single drones
alone. Synthetic aperture (SA) sensing is a signal processing technique that takes …

In the future, rescuing lost, ill or injured persons will increasingly be carried out by
autonomous drones. However, discovering humans in densely forested terrain is …

This paper experimentally examines different configurations of a multi-camera array
microscope (MCAM) imaging technology. The MCAM is based upon a densely packed array …

Although synthetic aperture imaging (SAI) can achieve the seeing-through effect by blurring
out off-focus foreground occlusions while recovering in-focus occluded scenes from multi …

Fully autonomous drones have been demonstrated to find lost or injured persons under
strongly occluding forest canopy. Airborne optical sectioning (AOS), a novel synthetic …

We describe how a new and low-cost aerial scanning technique, airborne optical sectioning
(AOS), can support ornithologists in nesting observation. After capturing thermal and color …

The presence of foliage is a serious problem for target detection with drones in application
fields such as search and rescue, surveillance, early wildfire detection, or wildlife …

Synthetic apertures find applications in many fields, such as radar, radio telescopes,
microscopy, sonar, ultrasound, LiDAR, and optical imaging. They approximate the signal of …

We present Inverse Airborne Optical Sectioning (IAOS), an optical analogy to Inverse
Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR). Moving targets, such as walking people, that are heavily …