3-Axis Camera Motion Compensation Coupled with Target Tracking for Stabilized Video Capture from Small-Scale Flying Vehicle

This paper presents a tracking system using captured image from camera on moving platform. Commonly, camera on the unmanned vehicle moves and shakes by external factors such as wind and movement of machine itself. It makes hard to track target properly and sometimes target cannot stay in the camera´s view. To deal with the problem, we propose a 3-Axis camera motion compensation method for stable tracking. Experimental results show that tracking target is successful and also improved the robustness of tracking system by the compensation.