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On-Board Target Virtualization Using Image Features for UAV Autonomous Tracking

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This paper describes a proposal of solution for target visual loss in autonomous navigation of UAVs by using artificial. Tests of target maintenance and position recovery have been included along with the sequence of images that verify the method performance.

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  1. CICTE Research Center, Universidad de Las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

    Vinicio S. Salcedo, Wilbert G. Aguilar & Bryan Cobeña

  2. GREC Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Wilbert G. Aguilar

  3. UGT Department, Universidad de Las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Latacunga, Ecuador

    Jorge A. Pardo & Zahira Proaño

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Salcedo, V.S., Aguilar, W.G., Cobeña, B., Pardo, J.A., Proaño, Z. (2018). On-Board Target Virtualization Using Image Features for UAV Autonomous Tracking. In: Boudriga, N., Alouini, MS., Rekhis, S., Sabir, E., Pollin, S. (eds) Ubiquitous Networking. UNet 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02849-7_34

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