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Detection of dead body underwater

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YILDIRAY  YILMAZ
YILDIRAY YILMAZ on 26 Apr 2016
Answered: Walter Roberson on 3 Oct 2017
Hi,
I am planning to do research about finding dead body under water using computer vision technics. Could you please share some introductional informations? I would like to get any suggestion regarding this topic.
Thanks.
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YILDIRAY  YILMAZ
YILDIRAY YILMAZ on 27 Apr 2016
Hi John,
Thanks for your interest and detailed answer. My aim is to find human's dead body. There are a lot of drowning in water incidents (usually in slack water) or some child disappearance cases in my town. After many of these incidents, dead human bodies can't find by divers. I thought that maybe i can develop a system to find human corpses under the water. Actually, i am planning to develop an autonomous underwater vehicle with powerful lights and high resolution stereo cameras. Thus, your second advice which is LIDAR seems very complicated and expensive system for me. I found some research about recognizing fish in the underwater videos. I expect that some kind of that approaches could apply for the human dead bodies. Your first advice is more suitable for me but as you said i have to know the information of the objects that i look for before the scanning.
Thanks, Yildiray
prem matlani
prem matlani on 17 Feb 2017
Hi Yildiraj,
i have to do a research for a specific case similar to yours. i have to search for sensors that can be used for an autonomous submarine to search weapons (metals) and human bodies. In my case im not allowed to use cameras or any light sensors. what could i use? thank you

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 3 Oct 2017
I recommend that you have a look at OpenROV which designs and builds autonomous underwater vehicles and has a very large enthusiast community. The history of it is somewhat interesting: active crowd collaboration has been a part of it from nearly the very beginning of the project. It is not a typical commercial project at all.

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