no code implementations • 10 Feb 2024 • Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan, Sigrid Strand, Dmitriy Shutin, Oliver Bimber
Inspired by Helmholtz reciprocity, we introduce reciprocal visibility to determine the dual situation - the visibility of potential sampling position in the air from given points of interest on the ground.
1 code implementation • 29 Nov 2023 • Mohamed Youssef, Oliver Bimber
We present a first and hybrid (model- and learning-based) architecture for fusing the most significant features from conventional aerial images with the ones from integral aerial images that are the result of synthetic aperture sensing for removing occlusion.
1 code implementation • 24 Oct 2023 • Robert Kerschner, Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan, Rafal Mantiuk, Oliver Bimber
The same was true with stereoscopic video because of the occlusions caused by foliage.
1 code implementation • 26 Apr 2023 • Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan, Oliver Bimber
Previous research has shown that in the presence of foliage occlusion, anomaly detection performs significantly better in integral images resulting from synthetic aperture imaging compared to applying it to conventional aerial images.
1 code implementation • 30 Dec 2022 • Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan, Indrajit Kurmi, Oliver Bimber
We demonstrate how efficient autonomous drone swarms can be in detecting and tracking occluded targets in densely forested areas, such as lost people during search and rescue missions.
1 code implementation • 8 Nov 2022 • Francis Seits, Indrajit Kurmi, Oliver Bimber
In this article, we evaluate unsupervised anomaly detection methods in multispectral images obtained with a wavelength-independent synthetic aperture sensing technique, called Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS).
1 code implementation • 27 Jul 2022 • Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan, Indrajit Kurmi, Oliver Bimber
We present Inverse Airborne Optical Sectioning (IAOS) an optical analogy to Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR).
1 code implementation • 28 Apr 2022 • Francis Seits, Indrajit Kurmi, Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan, Rudolf Ortner, Oliver Bimber
In this article, we demonstrate a relationship between forest density and field of view (FOV) of applied imaging systems.
1 code implementation • 12 Nov 2021 • Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan, Indrajit Kurmi, David C. Schedl, Oliver Bimber
Detecting and tracking moving targets through foliage is difficult, and for many cases even impossible in regular aerial images and videos.
1 code implementation • 18 Jun 2021 • Indrajit Kurmi, David C. Schedl, Oliver Bimber
Fully autonomous drones have been demonstrated to find lost or injured persons under strongly occluding forest canopy.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Indrajit Kurmi, David C. Schedl, Oliver Bimber
Airborne optical sectioning, an effective aerial synthetic aperture imaging technique for revealing artifacts occluded by forests, requires precise measurements of drone poses.
3 code implementations • 18 Sep 2020 • David C. Schedl, Indrajit Kurmi, Oliver Bimber
We show that automated person detection under occlusion conditions can be significantly improved by combining multi-perspective images before classification.
no code implementations • 8 May 2020 • Indrajit Kurmi, David C. Schedl, Oliver Bimber
In this article, we describe and validate the first fully automatic parameter optimization for thermal synthetic aperture visualization.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2019 • Indrajit Kurmi, David C. Schedl, Oliver Bimber
Synthetic apertures find applications in many fields, such as radar, radio telescopes, microscopy, sonar, ultrasound, LiDAR, and optical imaging.