Advances in sensor technology and image processing have made it possible to equip unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
with economical, high-resolution, energy-efficient sensors. Despite the improvements, current UAVs lack autonomous
and collaborative operation capabilities, due to limited bandwidth and limited on-board image processing abilities. The
situation, however, is changing. In the next generation of UAVs, much image processing can be carried out onboard and
communication bandwidth problem will improve. More importantly, with more processing power, collaborative
operations among a team of autonomous UAVs can provide more intelligent event detection capabilities. In this paper,
we present ideas for developing a system enabling target recognitions by collaborative operations of autonomous UAVs.
UAVs are configured in three stages: manufacturing, mission planning, and deployment. Different sets of information
are needed at different stages, and the resulting outcome is an optimized event detection code deployed onto a UAV. The
envisioned system architecture and the contemplated methodology, together with problems to be addressed, are
presented.
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