@inproceedings{44faa8a4b69e4112b51c944cc324fd17,
title = "Low-cost quadrotor applied for visual detection of landmine-like objects",
abstract = "This paper presents the use of a low-cost quadrotor applied for visual detection of landmine-like objects. Nowadays, landmines in Colombia are harmful and even letal artifacts mostly abandoned in rural areas. A percentage of the overall number of landmines are hand-crafted and partially exposed on the terrain's surface so that they can be triggered. Based on that fact, we propose an artificial vision approach as a complementary tool for landmine detection. To this purpose, we have developed an open-source software package based on the Robot Operating System (ROS) platform that can be easily: (i) integrated with a low-cost quadrotor such as the AR.drone parrot 2.0 and (ii) applied for real-time visual detection of landmine-like objects (tuna cans). This article describes the ROS-based package called drone detection and the experiments carried out for assessing the detection performance for different type of terrains and landmine visibility.",
author = "J. Rodriguez and C. Castiblanco and I. Mondragon and J. Colorado",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842242",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781479923762",
series = "2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "83--88",
booktitle = "2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings",
address = "United States",
note = "2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 ; Conference date: 27-05-2014 Through 30-05-2014",
}