Automatic Life Jacket Detection For Drones 85
garymortimer writes "Sentient, an Australian company that makes drone software, has given UAVs the ability to search for small, high visibility objects such as life jackets. From the article: 'Kestrel Maritime is a software solution that processes electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) full motion video (FMV) from manned and unmanned vehicles (UAVs). The Life Jacket Detection enhances Kestrel Maritime EO capability to automatically detect small, high visibility objects whilst searching wide maritime areas.'"
Seems good (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Not just search and rescue (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Life Jackets (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Seems good (Score:4, Insightful)
From your link:
"Alvin Wong believes the program would be less expensive today because trainers could use flight simulators to train the birds rather than taking them up in real helicopters."
Only if we could make flight sims with sufficient visual quality to fool a pigeon. Remember, our RGB monitors are adapted to our colour perception, they are not a good reproduction of reality.
Re:Seems good (Score:4, Insightful)
Old habits are hard to break....