Search and rescue operation using UAVs: A case study

I Martinez-Alpiste, G Golcarenarenji, Q Wang… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many people go missing in the wild every year. In this paper, the Search and Rescue (SAR)
mission is conducted using a novel system comprising an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) …

A survey on applications of unmanned aerial vehicles using machine learning

K Teixeira, G Miguel, HS Silva, F Madeiro - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in many applications, including
health, transport, telecommunications and safe and rescue operations. Their adoption can …

Human detection in aerial thermal images using faster R-CNN and SSD algorithms

KR Akshatha, AK Karunakar, SB Shenoy, AK Pai… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The automatic detection of humans in aerial thermal imagery plays a significant role in
various real-time applications, such as surveillance, search and rescue and border …

Open problems in computer vision for wilderness sar and the search for patricia wu-murad

T Manzini, R Murphy - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper details the challenges in applying two computer vision systems, an EfficientDET
supervised learning model and the unsupervised RX spectral classifier, to 98.9 GB of drone …

Finding nonrigid tiny person with densely cropped and local attention object detector networks in low-altitude aerial images

X Zhang, Y Feng, S Zhang, N Wang… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding tiny persons under the drone vision was, is, and remains to be an integral and
challenging task. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with high-speed, low-altitude, and multi …

Semi-supervised person detection in aerial images with instance segmentation and maximum mean discrepancy distance

X Zhang, Y Feng, S Zhang, N Wang, S Mei, M He - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Detecting sparse, small, lost persons with only a few pixels in high-resolution aerial images
was, is, and remains an important and difficult mission, in which a vital role is played by …

A comparison between various human detectors and CNN-based feature extractors for human activity recognition via aerial captured video sequences

N Aldahoul, HA Karim, AQM Sabri, MJT Tan… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human detection and activity recognition (HDAR) in videos plays an important role in
various real-life applications. Recently, object detection methods have been used to detect …

Human detection in drone images using yolo for search-and-rescue operations

S Caputo, G Castellano, F Greco, C Mencar… - … Conference of the …, 2021 - Springer
Today, unmanned aerial vehicles, more commonly known as drones, can be equipped with
high-resolution cameras and embedded GPUs powerful enough to provide effective and …

UAVs path planning under a bi-objective optimization framework for smart cities

S Saha, AE Vasegaard, I Nielsen, A Hapka, H Budzisz - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used extensively for search and rescue
operations, surveillance, disaster monitoring, attacking terrorists, etc. due to their growing …

Detecting humans in search and rescue operations based on ensemble learning

NMK Dousai, S Lončarić - IEEE access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detection of humans accurately in aerial images is critical for various applications such as
surveillance, detecting and tracking athletes on sports fields, and search and rescue …