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1 Aircraft Navigation State-of-the-Art in Vision Technologies Rangachar Kasturi, PhD Computer Science & Engineering University of South Florida

2 UAV Navigation Combining motion and depth for UAV navigation University of Southern California 2005

3 Horizon Detection for Navigation Using image processing to automatically detect navigational cues UC Berkeley 2005

4 Exploring Unknown Terrains using UAV Centre of Excellence in Autonomous Systems, Australia Mapping terrain in on-going reconnaissance 2004

5 Vision through Fog and Haze Study of atmospheric scattering effects to remove bad weather Shree K. Nayar Columbia University 2003

6 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

7 Navigation in Urban Areas Bio-inspired motion-based methods for visual navigation Animat Lab, France 2006

8 Obstacle Avoidance for Urban Aircraft Navigation 2007 University of South Florida

9 Vision-based Aircraft Surveillance Event Interactions: Person-Person Person-Vehicle Person-Facility Vehicle-Facility Activities: Loitering Trespassing Object Left Behind Etc… DARPA VIRAT BAA08-20 2008

10 Infrared imaging NASA UAV Southern California wildfires (2007) capturing thermal-infrared imagery to aid firefighters battling the remaining uncontrolled blazes

11 Virtual Reality & Surveillance 2006

12 Modified Concept: notify pilots and controller at the same time ASDE-X 2007 Runway Incursions – The Leading Aviation Safety Issue

13 Towards Automatic Collision Avoidance Use of 3D Geometric Approach Cooperative Approach 2006

14 UAV & MAV Swarms Defense & Surveillance Future battlefields are likely to be filled with UAV or MAV monitoring the action and engaging on enemy targets


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