In this talk I will present some research activities conducted during my PhD and more recently as a postdoc in collaboration with the Lagadic Group of Inria Rennes.
In particular, the talk will introduce some visual tracking methods for moving object tracking and 3D model-based localization in the context of the navigation and control of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). A more recent work on the use of dense depth maps for 3D model-based localization or positioning tasks will also be addressed.
The link between the motion of the visual sensor and the information acquired will be the key to all the presented applications.