Online Self-Supervised Thermal Water Segmentation for Aerial Vehicles
Connor Lee,Jonathan Gustafsson Frennert,Lu Gan,Matthew Anderson,Soon-Jo Chung,Connor Lee,Jonathan Gustafsson Frennert,Lu Gan,Matthew Anderson,Soon-Jo Chung
We present a new method to adapt an RGB-trained water segmentation network to target-domain aerial thermal imagery using online self-supervision by leveraging texture and motion cues as supervisory signals. This new thermal capability enables current autonomous aerial robots operating in near-shore environments to perform tasks such as visual navigation, bathymetry, and flow tracking at night. Our...
