Multidrone will organize a tutorial at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)  2018, to be held in Athens, Greece, October 7-10, 2018.

ICIP is the biggest conference on Image Processing, attracting more than 1000 participants. The half-day tutorial will be presented on Sunday October 7, 2018   by Multidrone Team members Ioannis Pitas, Anastasios Tefas (both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and  J. R. Martínez-de Dios (University of Seville, Spain).

The tutorial will cover  a number of topics related to drone cinematography and media production and applications of computer vision therein, such as:
a)drone localization
b)drone visual analysis for target/obstacle/crowd/point of interest detection,
c)2D/3D target tracking,
d)privacy protection technologies in drones (e.g. face de-identification),
e)current state of the art on the use of drones in cinematography, advertisement, news coverage, sports and media production in general,
f)multiple drone mission planning and flight control,
g)communication issues in drones (e.g. video streaming),
h)security and ethics issues in drones.