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Due to the high risk posed by PDE because of the potential collapse of structures, electrical hazards, gas leakage, etc., primary intervention tasks such as victim identification are carried out by robotic teams, provided with specific sensors such as thermal, RGB cameras, and laser. The application of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to computer vision is a breakthrough for detection algorithms. Conventional methods for victim identification in these environments use RGB image processing or trained dogs, but detection with RGB images is inefficient in the absence of light or presence of debris; on the other hand, developments with thermal images are limited to the field of surveillance. This paper\u2019s main contribution focuses on implementing a novel automatic method based on thermal image processing and CNN for victim identification in PDE, using a Robotic System that uses a quadruped robot for data capture and transmission to the central station. The robot\u2019s automatic data processing and control have been carried out through Robot Operating System (ROS). Several tests have been carried out in different environments to validate the proposed method, recreating PDE with varying conditions of light, from which the datasets have been generated for the training of three neural network models (Fast R-CNN, SSD, and YOLO). The method\u2019s efficiency has been tested against another method based on CNN and RGB images for the same task showing greater effectiveness in PDE main results show that the proposed method has an efficiency greater than 90%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21217346","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,5]],"date-time":"2021-11-05T02:25:54Z","timestamp":1636079154000},"page":"7346","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Autonomous Thermal Vision Robotic System for Victims Recognition in Search and Rescue Missions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2824-6611","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christyan","family":"Cruz Ulloa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid\u2014Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, 28006 Madrid, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3605-330X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guillermo","family":"Prieto S\u00e1nchez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid\u2014Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, 28006 Madrid, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1691-3907","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonio","family":"Barrientos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid\u2014Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, 28006 Madrid, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4893-2571","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jaime","family":"Del Cerro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid\u2014Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, 28006 Madrid, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2021, June 23). 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