Life Signs Detector Using a Drone in Disaster Zones

In the aftermath of a disaster, such as earthquake, flood, or avalanche, ground search for survivors is usually hampered by unstable surfaces and difficult terrain. Drones now play an important role in these situations, allowing rescuers to locate survivors and allocate resources to saving those who...

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Published in:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2019-10, Vol.11 (20), p.2441
Main Authors: Al-Naji, Ali, Perera, Asanka G., Mohammed, Saleem Latteef, Chahl, Javaan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cameras
cardiopulmonary motion
Computer vision
Data analysis
Data collection
denoising
Disasters
drone
Earthquakes
Ethics
Evacuations & rescues
Human motion
Human subjects
Mannequins
Motion detection
Motion perception
openpose
Remote sensing
Seismic activity
Sensors
Sequences
Survival
uav
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Vision systems
wavelet
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Summary:In the aftermath of a disaster, such as earthquake, flood, or avalanche, ground search for survivors is usually hampered by unstable surfaces and difficult terrain. Drones now play an important role in these situations, allowing rescuers to locate survivors and allocate resources to saving those who can be helped. The aim of this study was to explore the utility of a drone equipped for human life detection with a novel computer vision system. The proposed system uses image sequences captured by a drone camera to remotely detect the cardiopulmonary motion caused by periodic chest movement of survivors. The results of eight human subjects and one mannequin in different poses shows that motion detection on the body surface of the survivors is likely to be useful to detect life signs without any physical contact. The results presented in this study may lead to a new approach to life detection and remote life sensing assessment of survivors.
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs11202441