Real-Time Human Detection and Gesture Recognition for On-Board UAV Rescue

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in numerous technical and scientific fields, especially in wilderness rescue. This paper carries out work on real-time UAV human detection and recognition of body and hand rescue gestures. We use body-featuring solutions to establish biometric c...

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Published in:	Sensors
Main Authors:	Chang Liu, Tamás Szirányi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Subjects:	unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) search and rescue (SAR) UAV human communication body gesture recognition hand gesture recognition neural networks
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/6/2180

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