View source for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Visual Navigation

{{ProjectProposal
|title=A critical review on the state of the art in visual navigation for unmanned aerial vehicles 
|image=gesturelib.jpg
|description=Visual navigation is becoming more and more important in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The goal of this thesis/tesina is to review in a structured way the current state of art in the field from different perspective: research teams, projects, platforms, tasks, algorithms. The latter is the most important aspect obviously and the project should provide a clear view on what is done today, and obtaining which results. Two kind of operations are of most interest: tracking of fixed and mobile targets (and how this impact on the UAV path), navigation on a geo-referenced map. Implementing one of the standard approaches on a mini unmanned aerial vehicle would be the ideal ending of the work to turn it into a thesis.

'''''Material:'''''
*papers from major journals and conferences
*reports from research projects
'''''Expected outcome:'''''
*a report with a detailed review of the state of the art organized according to the main relevant aspects (to be identified during the work)
*an implementation of some state of the art algorithms for tracking or navigation
'''''Required skills or skills to be acquired:'''''
*proficiency in english
*basic understanding of computer vision 
*basic understanding of filtering techniques
|tutor=MatteoMatteucci
|start=2012/04/01
|studmin=1
|studmax=2
|cfumin=10
|cfumax=20
|resarea=Robotics
|restopic=none
|level=Bs;Ms
|type=Thesis
|status=Active
}}