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Multi-modal People Detection from Aerial Video Footage

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There has been great interest in the use of small robotic helicopter vehicles over the last few years. One potential class of applications for these are in searching for people.

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    Thermoteknix Miricle Microcam \(640\times 480 + 18.8\,\mathrm{{mm \ lens}}, 1/3''\) sensor; Fig. 1(a).

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Flynn, H., Cameron, S. (2014). Multi-modal People Detection from Aerial Video Footage. In: Natraj, A., Cameron, S., Melhuish, C., Witkowski, M. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_20

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