Aircraft Navigation State-of-the-Art in Vision Technologies Rangachar Kasturi, PhD Computer Science & Engineering University of South Florida
UAV Navigation Combining motion and depth for UAV navigation University of Southern California 2005
Horizon Detection for Navigation Using image processing to automatically detect navigational cues UC Berkeley 2005
Exploring Unknown Terrains using UAV Centre of Excellence in Autonomous Systems, Australia Mapping terrain in on-going reconnaissance 2004
Vision through Fog and Haze Study of atmospheric scattering effects to remove bad weather Shree K. Nayar Columbia University 2003
Millimeter-Wave Imaging Radars Generate a pilot-perspective image of a runway area even in zero-visibility conditions, and without ground support Georgia Tech Similar Technology is also used in automatic missile guidance systems
Navigation in Urban Areas Bio-inspired motion-based methods for visual navigation Animat Lab, France 2006
Obstacle Avoidance for Urban Aircraft Navigation 2007 University of South Florida
Vision-based Aircraft Surveillance Event Interactions: Person-Person Person-Vehicle Person-Facility Vehicle-Facility Activities: Loitering Trespassing Object Left Behind Etc… DARPA VIRAT BAA
Infrared imaging NASA UAV Southern California wildfires (2007) capturing thermal-infrared imagery to aid firefighters battling the remaining uncontrolled blazes
Virtual Reality & Surveillance 2006
Modified Concept: notify pilots and controller at the same time ASDE-X 2007 Runway Incursions – The Leading Aviation Safety Issue
Towards Automatic Collision Avoidance Use of 3D Geometric Approach Cooperative Approach 2006
UAV & MAV Swarms Defense & Surveillance Future battlefields are likely to be filled with UAV or MAV monitoring the action and engaging on enemy targets