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IMAV 2019 Special Achievement Award

By Christophe De WagterPosted on
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The article “Hear and Avoid for UAVs Using Convolutional Neural Networks” has won a special achievement award at IMAV 2019 in Madrid! The reviewers and the award committee considered the work an important step towards autonomous detect-and-avoid methods on drones. They also appreciated the open-access nature of the data gathered within the PercEvite project.

Microphone array on a runway, recording aircraft sounds for hear-and-avoid

The article

D. Wijnker, T. van Dijk, M. Snellen, G. C. H. E. de Croon, and C. De Wagter, “Hear and avoid for UAVs using convolutional neural networks,” 11th International Micro Air Vehicle Competition and Conference (IMAV 2019), Madrid, Spain, 2019, pp. 144–156. PDF

The extended journal version:

D.C. Wijnker, Tom van Dijk, M. Snellen, G.C.H.E. de Croon, C. de Wagter: Hear-and-avoid for unmanned air vehicles using convolutional neural networks. In: International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 13, 2021, ISSN: 1756-8293.