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Author:

Ross, James Alton

Title:

Computer Vision and Target Localization Algorithms for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous
georeferencing
target localization
computer vision
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV

File:

Download James_Ross_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lyle Norman Long, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

DeAngelo, Mark Patrick

Title:

Landmark-Aided Localization for Air Vehicles Using Learned Object Detectors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

localization
feature-based navigation
UAV
UAS
navigation
computer vision
landmark detection
object detection
cascade object detector
bag of words
bag of visual words
bag of keypoints
SVM
visual flight rules
VFR
image processing
UUV
AUV
sonar
underwater
airplane
quadcopter
aircraft
unmanned aerial vehicle
unmanned aerial system
remotely piloted vehicle
RPV
unmanned underwater vehicle
autonomous underwater vehicle
localisation

File:

Download MPDeAngeloDissertation_FinalMSWordPDF.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph F. Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph F. Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Sean N. Brennan, Committee Member
Richard Lee Culver, Outside Member

Author:

Dunbabin, Oliver

Title:

Rolling-Shutter Correction for Monocular Vision-Based Obstacle Mapping

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rolling shutter
progressive scan
Monocular vision
Visual mapping
SLAM
feature-point estimation
obstacle detection
obstacle avoidance
EKF
UKF
time-delay
time delay
time delay compensation
mapping algorithm
UAV
UAV mapping
localization
Simultaneous localization and mapping
Cameras
Image sequences
Layout
Trajectory
camera
image sequences
trajectory
image sensors
Kalman filters
motion estimation
nonlinear filters
SLAM (robots)
kalman filter
real-time vision
inverse depth parametrization
monocular SLAM
monocular simultaneous localization and mapping
extended Kalman filter
feature initialization
camera motion estimates
inverse depth
inverse depth parameterization
monocular mapping
rolling shutter time delay
GPS denied
navigation
feature-extraction
robot vision
computer vision
rolling-shutter model

File:

Download OliverDunbabin_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member