A method for optimizing image capture of a scene by a swarm of drones including a root drone and first and second level-1 drones involves the root drone following a predetermined trajectory over the scene, capturing one or more root keyframe images, at a corresponding one or more root drone orientations and root drone-to-scene distances. For each root keyframe image: the root drone generates a ground mask image for that root keyframe image, and applies that ground mask image to the root keyframe image to generate a target image. The root drone then analyzes the target image to generate first and second scanning tasks for the first and second level-1 drones to capture a plurality of images of the scene at a level-1 drone-to-scene distance smaller than the root drone-to-scene distance; and the first and second level-1 drones carry out the first and second scanning tasks respectively.


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    Title :

    Method of autonomous hierarchical multi-drone image capturing


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2023-08-08


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B64U / G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen



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