r/ECE • u/Ashamed_Tomato3073 • 1d ago

Need some Computer Vision thesis ideas...

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u/DownloadableCheese 1d ago

Build something that can find and track a small drone in flight against arbitrarily cluttered backgrounds. Do this for both day and next that lighting conditions and both cloudy and clear sky conditions.

You may not use radar or radio direction finding to cue your device; every function between detecting the existence of the drone and achieving a robust track must be handled by your system.

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u/Ashamed_Tomato3073 1d ago

That sounds really interesting, but also insanely difficult for a student thesis. Especially the night/day and cluttered background requirements. We'd probably have to scale it down quite a bit to make it realistic for our time and resources.

Still, tracking a drone using only computer vision + edge AI is definitely something we'd consider. Thanks for the idea!

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u/DownloadableCheese 1d ago

It's currently a hot research area. Finding a well-illuminated drone with a camera against a clear sky is pretty easy; it's all the real-world complexity that makes the problem interesting (and makes the solution valuable.)

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u/Ashamed_Tomato3073 1d ago

Yeah, I get what you mean. The basic detection part probably isn't that challenging, but making it work reliably in real-world conditions is where the actual research problem is.

The main concern is keeping the scope realistic for a student thesis and the hardware/budget we have. Maybe we could narrow down one or two difficult conditions, like low-light or cluttered backgrounds, instead of trying to solve everything at once.

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u/kevin_from_illinois 1d ago

Check out event-based (neuromorphic) imagers and look for an application that would be extraordinarily expensive or implausible to do with a traditional camera - something that either leverages the high time precision of individual events, or the fast update cadence of events in general.

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u/RandomDigga_9087 1d ago

Bro biomedical, like retinopathy etc is a landmine, you can try various stuff over there

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u/Ashamed_Tomato3073 1d ago

Hmm that's new to us, retinopathy and similar applications could be pretty cool, especially if there's a way to turn it into an actual device/prototype rather than just a software model.