VISKON-RS : Rapid Damage Assessment Software with Remote Sensing

23nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) -- MAY 16-19, 2015 -- Inonu Univ, Malatya, TURKEYWOS: 000380500900422After a disaster, a rapid damage assessment is required for coordinating emergency response teams and planning emergency aid. In this study, in line with AFAD requirements, ViSKON-RS software was developed for the aim of using disaster damage assessment by analysing images obtained via remote(space/air) imaging technologies. The developed software includes specialized applications for damage assessment of disaster types such as earthquake, flood and forest fires. In addition, applications for general image analysis were integrated to the software like change detection analysis, supervised/unsupervised classification, object based image analysis and texture analysis. The main purpose of ViSKON-RS software is to be integrated software solution by opening, processing, analysing, showing and exporting results to desicion support system of post-disaster remote sensing data.Dept Comp Engn & Elect & Elect Engn, Elect & Elect Engn, Bilkent Uni

Developing robust vision modules for microsystems applications

In this work, several robust vision modules are developed and implemented for fully automated micromanipulation. These are autofocusing, object and end-effector detection, real-time tracking and optical system calibration modules. An image based visual servoing architecture and a path planning algorithm are also proposed based on the developed vision modules. Experimental results are provided to asses the performance of the proposed visual servoing approach in positioning and trajectory tracking tasks. Proposed path planning algorithm in conjunction with visual servoing imply successful micromanipulation tasks