Suspicious object search in airborne camera video stream

Abstract

In some areas of drone application an object search task arises. Also there are cases where usage of standard approaches, e.g. object detection methods or fully manual video view, could be complicated or problematic. However it is possible to find local image (video frame) areas where suspicious object potentially can be present in such cases. We propose (i) an algorithm for suspicious object search in real time and (ii) an automated system (drone and ground control station) based on it, show brief results of its testing, make conclusions about further research direction.