Artificial Intelligence based Drones can find Lost People in Woods

Artificial Intelligence

Today drones can maneuver indoors, around difficult to reach nooks, bends and even dense forests too. What’s more? Well, recently drones again hit the headlines, owing to their new ability to help people, hikers lost in woods. In their paper published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers, David Schedl, Indrajit Kurmi and Oliver Bimber, from Johannes Kepler University, share how artificial intelligence to improve thermal imaging camera searches for people lost in woods. When hikers, trekkers or commoners are lost in woods, rescue team rely on binoculars, and thermal…

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Tamil Nadu launches AI-based project to catch traffic violators red-handed

Artificial Intelligence

Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday launched the Tollscope phase-II project, the brainchild of Sivaganga Superintendent of Police Rohit Nathan Rajagopal, to facilitate the enforcement of traffic violations through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Sivaganga. The police have installed 15 automatic number plate recording cameras with embedded AI system (PixxonAI) in and around Sivaganga town. These cameras will track the traffic flow round the clock and automatically identify traffic violators who are riding without helmets, triple riding etc. The system will capture the picture of the violators…

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