Rohit Mahajan
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Unconstrained Vision Guided UAV Based Safe Helicopter Landing
Arindam Sikdar, Abhimanyu Sahu, Debajit Sen, Rohit Mahajan, Ananda Chowdhury
Auto-TLDR; Autonomous Helicopter Landing in Hazardous Environments from Unmanned Aerial Images Using Constrained Graph Clustering
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In this paper, we have addressed the problem of automated detection of safe zone(s) for helicopter landing in hazardous environments from images captured by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The unconstrained motion of the image capturing drone (the UAV in our case) makes the problem further difficult. The solution pipeline consists of natural landmark detection and tracking, stereo-pair generation using constrained graph clustering, digital terrain map construction and safe landing zone detection. The main methodological contribution lies in mathematically formulating epipolar constraint and then using it in a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) based graph clustering approach. We have also made publicly available AHL (Autonomous Helicopter Landing) dataset, a new aerial video dataset captured by a drone, with annotated ground-truths. Experimental comparisons with other competing clustering methods i) in terms of Dunn Index and Davies Bouldin Index as well as ii) for frame-level safe zone detection in terms of F-measure and confusion matrix clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed formulation.