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Realtime Human-UAV Interaction Using Deep Learning

  • Ali Maher
  • , Ce Li
  • , Hanwen Hu
  • , Baochang Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a realtime human gesture identification for controlling a micro UAV in a GPS denied environment. Exploiting the breakthrough of deep convolution network in computer vision, we develop a robust Human-UAV Interaction (HUI) system that can detect and identify a person gesture to control a micro UAV in real time. We also build a new dataset with 23 participants to train or fine-tune the deep neural networks for human gesture detection. Based on the collected dataset, the state-of-art YOLOv2 detection network is tailored to detect the face and two hands locations of a human. Then, an interpreter approach is proposed to infer the gesture from detection results, in which each interpreted gesture is equivalent to a UAV flying command. Real flight experiments performed by non-expert users with the Bebop 2 micro UAV have approved our proposal for HUI. The gesture detection deep model with a demo will be publicly available to aid the research work.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiometric Recognition - 12th Chinese Conference, CCBR 2017, Proceedings
EditorsYunhong Wang, Yu Qiao, Jie Zhou, Jianjiang Feng, Zhenan Sun, Zhenhua Guo, Shiguang Shan, Linlin Shen, Shiqi Yu, Yong Xu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages511-519
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319699226
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event12th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 28 Oct 201729 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10568 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period28/10/1729/10/17

Keywords

  • Deep learning
  • Human gesture
  • Micro UAV
  • YOLO

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