Towards an Automatic Aircraft Wreckage Detection Using A Monocular Camera of UAV

Accidents occur suddenly and cannot be avoided either in the air, land, and water. The first step taken by the rescue team is to determine the location of the accident. Crash debris must be discovered even though it is on challenging terrains, such as a mountain, forest, or sea. In practice, a large number of casualties is caused by the delay in handling victims who are in unknown locations. Exploration is hampered due to the vastness of the search area, lack of technology, and the terrain that is difficult to reach by rescue teams. Therefore, in this paper, a wreckage aircraft detection system will be studied using only visual information from air sensing. A single monocular camera mounted on a UAV is employed in the system. Haar-like features and cascaded classifiers that have been widely used for object detection is studied due to its efficiency and practical implementation for most embedded platform attached in UAVs. We believe that this research will help accelerate finding accident sites so that the process of handling victims becomes more useful for the search and rescue team.