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Image segmentation to identify safe landing zones for unmanned aerial vehicles

Kinahan, Joe and Smeaton, Alan F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1028-8389 (2021) Image segmentation to identify safe landing zones for unmanned aerial vehicles. In: 29th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 9-10 December 2021, Dublin, Ireland and Online.

Abstract
There is a marked increase in delivery services in urban areas, and with Jeff Bezos claiming that 86% of the orders that Amazon ships weigh less than 5 lbs, the time is ripe for investigation into economical methods of automating the final stage of the delivery process. With the advent of semi-autonomous drone delivery services, such as Irish startup `Manna', and Malta's `Skymax', the final step of the delivery journey remains the most difficult to automate. This paper investigates the use of simple images captured by a single RGB camera on a UAV to distinguish between safe and unsafe landing zones. We investigate semantic image segmentation frameworks as a way to identify safe landing zones and demonstrate the accuracy of lightweight models that minimise the number of sensors needed. By working with images rather than video we reduce the amount of energy needed to identify safe landing zones for a drone, without the need for human intervention.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial intelligence
Computer Science > Image processing
Computer Science > Digital video
Engineering > Imaging systems
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Institutes and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Published in: Proceedings of The 2926501th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3105. CEUR-WS.
Publisher:CEUR-WS
Official URL:http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3105/
Copyright Information:© 2021 The Authors. (CC-BY-4.0)
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland
ID Code:26501
Deposited On:01 Dec 2021 16:08 by Alan Smeaton . Last Modified 25 Apr 2022 12:34
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