28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-6.9.1

FIELD-OF-VIEW, DETECTION RANGE, AND FALSE ALARM TRADE-OFFS IN VISION-BASED AIRCRAFT DETECTION

J. Lai, J. J. Ford, L. Mejias, A. Wainwright, P. O'Shea, R. Walker
ARCAA, QUT, Australia

Keywords: sense-and-avoid, computer vision, collision avoidance

This paper presents flight test results examining the impact of camera field-of-view choice on detection range and false alarm performance of a vision-based aircraft detection technique. The results show that for similar levels of detection confidence, an improvement in detection range can be obtained by choosing a smaller effective field-of-view.

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