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A New Algorithm for Visual Navigation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Water Surface Inspection
Jianfeng Han1,2, Xiongwei Gao1,2, Lili Song1,2
1School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010080, China.
Abstract:
Water surface inspection is a crucial instrument for safeguarding the aquatic environment. UAVs enhance the efficiency of water area inspections due to their high mobility and extensive coverage. This paper introduces two UAV inspection methodologies for the characteristics of rivers and lakes, along with an efficient semantic segmentation algorithm, WaterSegLite (Water Segmentation Lightweight algorithm), for UAV visual navigation. The algorithm employs the UAV's aerial perspective alongside a streamlined neural network architecture to facilitate rapid real-time segmentation of water bodies and to furnish positional data to the UAV for visual navigation. The experimental findings indicate that WaterSegLite achieves a segmentation accuracy (mIoU) of 93.81% and an F1 score of 95.44%, surpassing the baseline model by 2.7% and 2.23%, respectively. Simultaneously, the processing frame rate of this algorithm on the airborne device attains 28.27 frames per second, fully satisfying the requirements for real-time water surface inspection by UAVs. This paper offers technical assistance for UAV inspection techniques in aquatic environments and presents innovative concepts for the intelligent advancement of water surface inspection.
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