Abstract : A challenging task of airborne operations remains the landing on the carrier deck, which limits the carrier operational efficiency during rough sea. In this paper, a method of carrier visual detection and tracking is described. With the help of the aircraft sensors, the carrier is first detected in the image using a warped patch of a reference image. This provides an initialization to a real time 3D model-based tracker estimating the camera pose during the sequence. This method is demonstrated and evaluated using a simulator with high-fidelity visualization and on real video.
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L. Coutard, F. Chaumette. Visual detection and 3D model-based tracking for landing on aircraft carrier. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'11, 2011, Shanghai, China, China. pp.1746-1751. ⟨hal-00639672⟩