Vitkovskyi V. Thermal imaging camera for UAV

The Master's thesis comprises 93 pages, 19 figures, 29 tables, and 35 references.
Research Objective: The objective of this Master's thesis is to analyze the operation principle of a drone with a thermal camera and develop a program for analyzing captured images using neural networks.
Research Methods:  To achieve the research objective, the following methods will be employed:
Literature Review: An analysis of literature will be conducted to study existing thermal cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Technical Specification Development: A technical specification will be developed for the program analyzing thermal camera images.
Implementation of Technical Specification: The design of the camera will be carried out, considering the requirements of the technical specification.
Testing: The program will be tested on a specialized dataset.
Research Object: The utilization of machine learning in image recognition.
Research Subject: Methods of automated recognition of people and fire in images from a thermal camera.
Results and Novelty of the Work:
1. The general structure and functioning principle of UAVs and thermal cameras, along with their device composition, have been examined.
2. A neural network has been developed for the analysis and classification of images captured by a thermal camera.
3. The operational capability of the neural network has been tested in two modes:
1. Analysis of individual images.
2. Analysis of a dataset.

Research advisor: S.Nechai

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