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This document discusses advancements in computer vision for surveillance applications, focusing on target detection and tracking using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). It presents a novel background subtraction technique and an adaptive mean shift tracking method to improve accuracy in dynamic environments. The algorithms are evaluated against existing methods using real-time aerial video data captured by the UAV DHAKSHA.

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Abstract

This document discusses advancements in computer vision for surveillance applications, focusing on target detection and tracking using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). It presents a novel background subtraction technique and an adaptive mean shift tracking method to improve accuracy in dynamic environments. The algorithms are evaluated against existing methods using real-time aerial video data captured by the UAV DHAKSHA.

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ABSTRACT

Computer vision has become an increasingly popular area of

research. Computer vision always deals with providing non invasive solution

to the circumstances. In surveillance based computer vision application,

object detection and tracking are the basic steps of segmenting and tracking

an object of interest from a sequence of video frames. When the camera is

fixed, with consistent background object detection can be done with simpler

techniques. But, in aerial surveillance, the target along with background and

video camera are in motion. Also the size and shape of the target varies with

the altitude of flight. The proposed work is designed to detect and track the

targets in the video data captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). An

UAV is an aircraft without pilot onboard. UAV DHAKSHA is a remote

operated unmanned miniature helicopter. It is designed to carry payload like

visual and acoustic sensors. It is capable of communicating with the

controller and returns payload data like video, acoustic signals, position,

speed, heading and altitude. The device is optimized for maximum efficiency,

low noise, less weight and higher endurance. Target detection and tracking

are the two approaches discussed in this thesis. A dataset of aerial videos with

varying circumstances and properties is collected by deploying the UAV in

real time environment and fed as input data to the designed algorithms.
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Target Detection in video sequence is the first step in any of the

surveillance applications. The designed target detection algorithm should be

accurate in the presence of varying lighting conditions, dynamic clutter and

variations in scene. Background subtraction is the most widely used technique

for detection of moving objects in the video. Most of the Background

subtraction techniques make a hypothesis that the content in the input video

sequence possess fixed background in which the object is moving. But, UAV

captures the video dynamically. Hence, Running Gaussian background

subtraction technique with adaptive setup to update the background frame by

frame is proposed and implemented. Also the performance of target detection

is improved by defining a fixed value to the tuning factor. A suitable value for

the tuning factor (α) is optimized statistically. The technique is compared with

few other existing techniques like Temporal frame differencing (TMF),

Running average background subtraction (RABS) and Temporal median

filtering (TMF) techniques.

Target tracking is the process of estimating the timely location of

one or multiple targets of interest in a video stream captured by a visual

camera. Mean shift tracking is a non-parametric, kernel based tracking

technique which provides accurate localization and matching of target without

expensive search. It works on iterative passion. It computes the mean value

for the position of pixel in the current window and shifts to new position in

the next frame which possesses the mean value and continues till it satisfies

the conditions. However, the traditional mean shift tracking approach works

on assumption that the target differs significantly from background. But, in


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cases like aerial videos it is difficult to discriminate the background and the

target. Thus an adaptive background model based Mean Shift tracking

technique is proposed and implemented. Here the background model is

defined and updated frame by frame thereby the problem of occlusion gets

eliminated. The same video used for target detection is fed to the target

tracking algorithm. The algorithm is compared with Traditional mean shift

tracking technique (TMST) and Continuously adaptive mean shift technique

(CAM Shift) to evaluate and justify the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.

In this work, some novel approaches to object detection and tracking are

done. The works are simulated using MATLAB and the performance is

evaluated by image based and video based metrics.

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