A hybrid Particle filter-CAMSHIFT model based solution for aerial maritime survivor search

The speed for finding and locating the survivors from shipwrecks can never be considered to be too fast. Existing methods are either too slow or inefficient. In this paper, we proposed an effective solution by employing multi-camera cooperation mechanism and hybrid Particle filter-CAMSHIFT framework to realize the detection for survivors wearing Iifejackets from the airplanes. The multi-camera system can significantly enlarge the surveillance region while preserving the imaging quality with the zoomed cameras; and the hybrid framework can locate the survivors in the sea accurately and reliably based on the color clues. Moreover, this multi-camera cooperation mechanism has made our proposed system highly extendable, thus by including more cameras in the system, the imaging quality and monitoring power can be further enhanced.