{"id":452253,"date":"2022-05-25T00:38:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-drone-can-track-targets-through-forests\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T00:38:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:38:27","slug":"this-drone-can-track-targets-through-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-drone-can-track-targets-through-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"#This drone can track targets through forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2695a58b308\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2695a58b308\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-drone-can-track-targets-through-forests\/#%E2%80%9CThis_drone_can_track_targets_through_forests%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;This drone can track targets through forests&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-drone-can-track-targets-through-forests\/#Greetings_humanoids\" >Greetings humanoids<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThis_drone_can_track_targets_through_forests%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;This drone can track targets through forests&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            A team of researchers from Austria recently developed an AI-powered drone capable of tracking moving objects through dense foliage. So much for escaping to the woods and living off the land if the machines ever rise up against us.<\/p>\n<p>Per the team\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spj.sciencemag.org\/journals\/remotesensing\/2022\/9812765\/#conflicts-of-interest\">research paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While detecting and tracking moving targets through foliage is difficult (and often even impossible) in regular aerial images or videos, it becomes practically feasible with image integration \u2026<\/p>\n<p>This finding together with the implementation of an initial drone-operated camera array for parallel synthetic aperture aerial imaging allows presenting first results on tracking moving people through dense forest. Besides people, other targets (e.g., vehicles or animals) can be detected and tracked in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>This might impact many <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lication domains, such as search and rescue, surveillance, border control, and wildlife observation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Up front:<\/strong> There are myriad ways an interested party could track moving objects through dense foliage, including FLIR and other thermal optics systems, but this offers a new AI-powered wrinkle: the ability to track color changes through occlusion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"corona-wrapper neural-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div class=\"neural-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"neural-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/companies\/neural-newsletter_header.gif\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/companies\/neural-newsletter_header.gif\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"neural-cta-input\">\n<h2 class=\"neural-cta-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Greetings_humanoids\"><\/span>Greetings humanoids<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"neural-cta-tagline\">Subscribe now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories<\/p>\n<p><!--[if lte IE 8]><![endif]--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Teaching an AI to figure out what\u2019s going on in an image when a significant amount of relevant information is hidden is one of the AI world\u2019s biggest challenges. In this case, the researchers developed a system capable of using a technique called \u201ccolor anomaly detection\u201d in real-time to track occluded objects in motion \u2014 a first, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2022-05-aerial-imaging-technique-ability-track.html\">the Journal of Remote Sensing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> The team created a lightweight 1D camera array that captures overhead images of high-foliage areas via drone deployment. Traditional aerial photography techniques use color anomaly detection to scan images for clusters of pixels that don\u2019t match the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>However, the team\u2019s contribution was to develop a hardware and machine learning combination that combined traditional techniques with their new airborne camera system to create something capable of identifying color anomalies and tracking them through occluded areas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1387380 aligncenter js-lazy\" alt=\"An image of a drone mounted with a camera array next to a breakdown of the arrays parts.\" width=\"1676\" height=\"607\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1676px) 100vw, 1676px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003.png 1640w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-280x101.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-270x98.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-540x196.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-1536x556.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-796x288.png 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-1592x577.png 1592w\"\/><figcaption>Credit: Nathan, et al.<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1387380 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003.png\" alt=\"An image of a drone mounted with a camera array next to a breakdown of the arrays parts.\" width=\"1676\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003.png 1640w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-280x101.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-270x98.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-540x196.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-1536x556.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-796x288.png 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/05\/9812765.fig_.003-1592x577.png 1592w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Quick take:<\/strong> This could have im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te and potentially massive benefits for search and rescue efforts. Due to its relatively low compute requirements and power overhead, this is a solution that could be shipped to secluded areas of the world relatively quickly and put into service immediately. I can see this saving the lives of hikers who\u2019ve gone off course or plane crash survivors stuck in remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>It could also have huge upside for conservation efforts if used in combination with GPS tagging and other tracking efforts.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s also apparent that something like this could turn a Predator drone, for example, into something capable of tracking targets through occluded areas (such as congested city blocks or jungles) even if it loses connectivity with its human controllers or has its communications jammed.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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