Master's Thesis

Detection and Tracking in Airborne Image Sequences

Patrícia Maria Gonçalves Silva2018

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Authors:

Patrícia Maria Gonçalves Silva (Patrícia Maria Gonçalves Silva)

Supervisors:

Jorge Dos Santos Salvador Marques (Jorge Dos Santos Salvador Marques); Alexandre José Malheiro Bernardino (Alexandre José Malheiro Bernardino)

Published in

June 26, 2018

Abstract

This work proposes and evaluates a method for detection and tracking of maritime vessels in airborne image sequences. Such sequences are challenging due to sun reflections, low resolution, wakes, wave crests and fast motions either from the vessel but also from the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), which significantly degrade the performance of general purpose tracking algorithms. The proposed method is based on state-of-the-art deep neural network detection method complemented with a correlation filter tracker. We evaluate our proposal using a known benchmark in the field and compare the obtained results with the results obtained with the original algorithms. The dataset used to perform the evaluations was obtained during the SEAGULL project.

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Fields of Science and Technology (FOS)

mechanical-engineering - Mechanical engineering

Publication language (ISO code)

por - Portuguese

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Embargo lifted

Date available:

April 30, 2019

Institution name

Instituto Superior Técnico