Implementing Face Detection System on UAV Using Raspberry Pi Platform

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are air vehicle without pilot which usually appears in the form of quadcopter, hexacopter or aircraft. Implementing face detection and recognition system on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can identify people on the ground. Lightweight portable system is needed to be applied on UAV. In this paper a Raspberry Pi implementation of face detection has been proposed. Haar cascade classifier algorithm is used via OpenCV tool. The implementation is evaluated using the specific UAV facial image dataset. Experimental results shows 98%, 93%, 86% and 80% True Positive for 1.5, 3, 4 and 5 meters height of camera from the ground, respectively.

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