Drones Can Automatically Track Targets in The Forest
Austrian researchers have built an AI-powered drone that can follow moving things through thick forest. So much for retreating to the woods and surviving off the land if the robots ever attack. Research paper : 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 …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.This might impact many application domains, such as search and rescue, surveillance, border control, and wildlife observation. There are several methods for tracking moving objects through thick vegetation, including FLIR and other thermal optics devices, but this adds a novel A...