Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life

Volume 8, Issue 2, September 2021, Pages 134 - 138

Detection of a Fallen Person and its Head and Lower Body from Aerial Images

Authors
Joo Kooi Tan*, Haruka Egawa
Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Sensuicho 1-1, Tobata, Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: etheltan@cntl.kyutech.ac.jp
Corresponding Author
Joo Kooi Tan
Received 23 November 2020, Accepted 23 May 2021, Available Online 24 July 2021.
DOI
10.2991/jrnal.k.210713.013How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Fallen person detection; head and lower body detection; aerial images; rotation-invariant HOG; rotation-invariant LBP; Random Forest; peak of gradient histograms
Abstract

This paper proposes a method of detecting a person fallen on the ground and its head and lower body from aerial images. The study intends to automate discovering victims of disasters such as earthquakes from areal images taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Rotation-invariant histogram of oriented gradients and rotation-invariant local binary pattern are used as features describing a fallen person so as to detect it regardless of its body orientation. The proposed method also detects the head and the lower body of a fallen person using the peak of the gradient histogram. Experimental results show satisfactory performance of the proposed method.

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Journal
Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life
Volume-Issue
8 - 2
Pages
134 - 138
Publication Date
2021/07/24
ISSN (Online)
2352-6386
ISSN (Print)
2405-9021
DOI
10.2991/jrnal.k.210713.013How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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