Anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) present an indiscriminate threat to civilians that long outlasts the conflicts for which they were used. Humanitarian Demining is a time-intensive process of locating and eliminating UXOs in order to reduce this threat.
The goal of the project “Collaborative Network UXO” is to study and develop an experimental platform to assist operators in the field in their tasks, in particular during recognition and classification of unexploded ordnances and their mapping in the environment.
One part of the project UXO was assigned to RITEH: to research state of the art image processing techniques with applications to localization, mapping and object classification; to propose a technique according to specifications received during the project, implement it and test it in laboratory on real data obtained in the field while also providing guidance for an efficient integration in a planned prototype application.
