Traffic lights detection and tracking for HD map creation.

HD-maps are one of the core components of the self-driving pipeline. Despite the effort of many companies to develop a completely independent vehicle, many state-of-the-art solutions rely on high-definition maps of the environment for localization and navigation. Nevertheless, the creation process of such maps can be complex and error-prone or expensive if performed ad-hoc surveys.

Controlling the Flight of a Drone and Its Camera for 3D Reconstruction of Large Objects.

In this paper we present a simple stand-alone system performing the autonomous acquisition of multiple pictures all around large objects, i.e., objects that are too big to be photographed from any side just with a camera held by hand.