AeroWorks: Visual Identification of Aircraft Flight Regimes

This Bachelor thesis deals with the visual identification of an aircraft flight's regimes. It describes the spatial motion of an airplane along with the visualization of flight parameters and also proposes a system for a flight regime visual identification. The system processes the input video on a frame by frame basis in two steps. Initially, the video is being stabilized and the system subsequently proceeds in identification of flight related quantities describing the current flight state. Video stabilization is based on feature points detection and an optical flow calculation. Video frames are transformed in order to achieve sufficient consecutive frames overlap and thus to minimize the parasitic oscillations of the video acquisition system. Identification of values indicated by flight instruments is based on the Hough line transform approach. The thesis also includes a description of an application that analyzes a video from the cockpit of an aircraft and is able to recognize the instrument values displayed on specified flight instruments