Real-Time Person Detection in Wooded Areas Using Thermal Images from an Aerial Perspective

Oscar Ramírez-Ayala, Iván González-Hernández, Sergio Salazar, Jonathan Flores, Rogelio Lozano, Rossitza Goleva, Radosveta Sokullu, Ciprian Dobre, Nuno M Garcia · 2023

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Oscar Ramírez-Ayala and co-authors built a thermal image data set in 2023 for spotting lost people in wooded country from a drone, where leaves hide bodies from ordinary cameras. Heat cameras see through some of that cover, but a person is tiny in the frame and often partly blocked.

Their set deliberately includes blocked and partly blocked figures, shot from a height controlled quadcopter. Deep learning models trained on it learned to pick out the warm shape of a person even when trees cut across it. The work runs in real time on the drone prototype. The authors aim the system at search and rescue teams working forests after accidents or disasters.

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CREATOROscar Ramírez-Ayala, Iván González-Hernández, Sergio Salazar, Jonathan Flores, Rogelio Lozano, Rossitza Goleva, Radosveta Sokullu, Ciprian Dobre, Nuno M Garcia
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE27 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10675173

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