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Through-Foliage Tracking with Airborne Optical Sectioning

arXiv 2111.06959 ↗First posted 12 Nov 2021cs.CVcited by 13

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Abstract (arXiv)

Detecting and tracking moving targets through foliage is difficult, and for many cases even impossible in regular aerial images and videos. We present an initial light-weight and drone-operated 1D camera array that supports parallel synthetic aperture aerial imaging. Our main finding is that color anomaly detection benefits significantly from image integration when compared to conventional raw images or video frames (on average 97% vs. 42% in precision in our field experiments). We demonstrate, that these two contributions can lead to the detection and tracking of moving people through densely occluding forest.

Key facts. Cited by 13 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 7 of its 39 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 Nov 2021.

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References · 7

  1. 2021An Autonomous Drone for Search and Rescue in Forests using Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 32
  2. 2020Search and Rescue with Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 20
  3. 2019A Statistical View on Synthetic Aperture Imaging for Occlusion Removalcited by 16
  4. 2020Fast Automatic Visibility Optimization for Thermal Synthetic Aperture Visualizationcited by 14
  5. 2020Pose Error Reduction for Focus Enhancement in Thermal Synthetic Aperture Visualizationcited by 13
  6. 2021Combined Person Classification with Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 13
  7. 2018Image Anomalies: a Review and Synthesis of Detection Methodscited by 10

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Citing papers per year: 2022: 4; 2023: 3; 2024: 2; 2025: 2; 2026: 2.

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  1. 2022Inverse Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 9
  2. 2022Evaluation of Color Anomaly Detection in Multispectral Images For Synthetic Aperture Sensingcited by 9
  3. 2022On the Role of Field of View for Occlusion Removal with Airborne Optical Sectioningcited by 6
  4. 2023Fusion of Single and Integral Multispectral Aerial Imagescited by 5
  5. 2023Stereoscopic Depth Perception Through Foliagecited by 3
  6. 2024An Autonomous Drone Swarm for Detecting and Tracking Anomalies among Dense Vegetationcited by 3
  7. 2025DeepForest: Sensing Into Self-Occluding Volumes of Vegetation With Aerial Imagingcited by 3
  8. 2025Through-Foliage Surface-Temperature Reconstruction for Early Wildfire Detectioncited by 2
  9. 2022Synthetic Aperture Sensing for Occlusion Removal with Drone Swarmscited by 1
  10. 2023Synthetic Aperture Anomaly Imagingcited by 0
  11. 2024Reciprocal Visibilitycited by 0
  12. 2026De-occluding broadband metalenscited by 0
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  1. 2026Vision-Reasoning-Guided Occlusion Removal from Light Fieldscited by 0