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Fast Automatic Visibility Optimization for Thermal Synthetic Aperture Visualization

arXiv 2005.04065 ↗First posted 8 May 2020cs.CV cs.GRcited by 14

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this article, we describe and validate the first fully automatic parameter optimization for thermal synthetic aperture visualization. It replaces previous manual exploration of the parameter space, which is time consuming and error prone. We prove that the visibility of targets in thermal integral images is proportional to the variance of the targets' image. Since this is invariant to occlusion it represents a suitable objective function for optimization. Our findings have the potential to enable fully autonomous search and recuse operations with camera drones.

Key facts. Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 8 May 2020.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 3; 2022: 4; 2023: 3; 2024: 0; 2025: 3; 2026: 1.

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  2. 2021Combined Person Classification with Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 13
  3. 2021Through-Foliage Tracking with Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 13
  4. 2022Inverse Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 9
  5. 2022Evaluation of Color Anomaly Detection in Multispectral Images For Synthetic Aperture Sensingcited by 9
  6. 2022On the Role of Field of View for Occlusion Removal with Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 6
  7. 2023Fusion of Single and Integral Multispectral Aerial Imagescited by 5
  8. 2023Stereoscopic Depth Perception Through Foliagecited by 3
  9. 2025DeepForest: Sensing Into Self-Occluding Volumes of Vegetation With Aerial Imagingcited by 3
  10. 2025Through-Foliage Surface-Temperature Reconstruction for Early Wildfire Detectioncited by 2
  11. 2022Synthetic Aperture Sensing for Occlusion Removal with Drone Swarmscited by 1
  12. 2025How Robot Dogs See the Unseeable: Improving Visual Interpretability via Peering for Exploratory Robotscited by 1
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  2. 2026Vision-Reasoning-Guided Occlusion Removal from Light Fieldscited by 0