From Interdrone 2015

Areas for Further Research

Crowd Analytics through Facial Recognition

Eyeris

Software package called ImoVu - Deep Learning architecture for image processes that imitates human recognition

  • Vision for Embedded Systems
  • 97% accurate
  • 140 FPS on i7 processor
  • Ambient Intelligence (AML) - Electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people.
  • Minimal required resolution for a face: 50x50px, Ideal 70x70px
  • Does not use FACS
  • Uses OpenCV open source software to identify faces and for some devices, sometimes falls back to the devices facial recognition
  • This software is not useful for things or places (only people)
  • Allows for
    • Access to Hard to reach places
    • Large coverage area
    • Eye Level
    • Improved angles


  • Trained For
    • 5 Major ethnic groups
    • 5 age groups
    • 2 genders
    • 10 lightning conditions
    • 13 head poses
    • supervised and unsupervised
    • different camera structures
    • different resolution
    • different face attributes
      • Joy
      • Surprise
      • Sadness
      • Disgust
      • Anger
      • Fear
      • Neutral

3D Mapping

  • mark@visuallaw.com
  • sketchfab - 3d modeling software
  • pointcloud
  • DroneDeploy - android app for creating 3d mesh and orthomap ($300 a month)
  • Pix4D - the primary software for creating 3 modeling of terrain
  • Adjisoft Photoscan (?) - Competitor to pix4d
  • Autodesk is working on comparable software

DroneKit

Flying in Wind: State Estimation for UAS

  • Douglas Weibel, PHD
  • Wind - a vector velocity field with spatial and temporal variation
  • Wind has structured (predictive) and random properties (turbulence) that are difficult to model
  • State
    • Attitude (Roll, Pitch, Yaw, Roll Rate, Pitch Rate, Yaw Rate)
    • Attitude Rates
    • Position
    • Velocity
  • Other possible states
    • Wind Paramters
    • Height over ground
    • Battery energy
    • gyro bias
    • accel bias
  • Attitude Estimation
    • Stabilized Sub Platform
    • Whabba's problem
    • Integration
    • Combined