Advances in intelligent and autonomous navigation systems for small UAS

S Bijjahalli, R Sabatini, A Gardi - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
A significant growth in Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations has been observed over
the past decade, largely driven by the emergence of new commercial opportunities and use …

Vision based uav attitude estimation: Progress and insights

AER Shabayek, C Demonceaux, O Morel… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2012 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly replacing manned systems in situations
that are dangerous, remote, or difficult for manned aircraft to access. Its control tasks are …

Non-iterative approach for fast and accurate vanishing point detection

JP Tardif - 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an algorithm that quickly and accurately estimates vanishing points in images of
man-made environments. Contrary to previously proposed solutions, ours is neither iterative …

Video compass

J Košecká, W Zhang - Computer Vision—ECCV 2002: 7th European …, 2002 - Springer
In this paper we describe a flexible approach for determining the relative orientation of the
camera with respect to the scene. The main premise of the approach is the fact that in man …

Bitconeview: visualization of flows in the bitcoin transaction graph

G Di Battista, V Di Donato, M Patrignani… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bitcoin is a digital currency whose transactions are stored into a public ledger, called
blockchain, that can be viewed as a directed graph with more than 70 million nodes, where …

An automated method for large-scale, ground-based city model acquisition

C Früh, A Zakhor - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2004 - Springer
In this paper, we describe an automated method for fast, ground-based acquisition of large-
scale 3D city models. Our experimental set up consists of a truck equipped with one camera …

Atlanta world: An expectation maximization framework for simultaneous low-level edge grouping and camera calibration in complex man-made environments

G Schindler, F Dellaert - … of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edges in man-made environments, grouped according to vanishing point directions, provide
single-view constraints that have been exploited before as a precursor to both scene …

Detecting vanishing points using global image context in a non-manhattan world

M Zhai, S Workman, N Jacobs - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2016 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a novel method for detecting horizontal vanishing points and the zenith
vanishing point in man-made environments. The dominant trend in existing methods is to …

Deep vanishing point detection: Geometric priors make dataset variations vanish

Y Lin, R Wiersma, SL Pintea… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Deep learning has improved vanishing point detection in images. Yet, deep networks
require expensive annotated datasets trained on costly hardware and do not generalize to …

Vanishing point detection without any a priori information

A Almansa, A Desolneux… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Even though vanishing points in digital images result from parallel lines in the 3D scene,
most of the proposed detection algorithms are forced to rely heavily either on additional …