Posted on 11/27/2020 12:52:30 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
A trio of researchers at Johannes Kepler University has used artificial intelligence to improve thermal imaging camera searches of people lost in the woods. In their paper published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, David Schedl, Indrajit Kurmi and Oliver Bimber, describe how they applied a deep learning network to the problem of people lost in the woods and how well it worked.
When people become lost in forests, search and rescue experts use helicopters to fly over the area where they are most likely to be found. In addition to simply scanning the ground below, the researchers use binoculars and thermal imaging cameras. It is hoped that such cameras will highlight differences in body temperature of people on the ground versus their surroundings making them easier to spot. Unfortunately, in some instances thermal imaging does not work as intended because of vegetation covering subsoil or the sun heating the trees to a temperature that is similar to the body temperature of the person that is lost. In this new effort, the researchers sought to overcome these problems by using a deep learning application to improve the images that are made.
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The Robert Reich Truth and Reconciliation Commission can use this technology to find fugitive Trump-enablers hiding in the woods.
My first thought, as well.
For how many of us was that the first thing that popped into our minds.
And no, it’s not because we’re paranoid.
The left is acting like hitler was killed and all of his minions have to be rounded up and punished.
I just wonder if they will be tried here or in Nuremberg
Sometimes it’s hard to find people in the woods. Searchers have come within 100 feet or less of people lost in the woods, and even within 100 feet of small planes crashed in the woods, and not been able to find them.
The deep learning application will also need to distinguish between Humans & Yeti’s to prevent false positives during their S&R missions.
Tech thread. No serious comments allowed.
How does one hide their thermal signature?
>How does one hide their thermal signature?
Similar to evading facial recognition. Look like the background.
I’ve been listening for a decade to David Paulides, and there is a reason why he’s the highest rated guest when Art Bell was still alive.
The amount of people who disappear in American national forests is astronomical, and they are mostly never found. Especially the 2016 interview on what the Forestry Service “really” does when you want to investigate a missing hiker..
Right out of the Matt Bracken’s trilogy. Is Matt a prophet or just smarter than most of us? Does he play 3D chess?
It needs to have a speaker attached. Sound is such an important feature of hunting.
Upn here mountains them city slickers done go wanderin in the woods alone without a gun n them wolves just havem for lunch. They is stupid really people cos them wolves dragem into a cave n that s bye bye time. Hunters, they don found bones of a kid n an adult in a bear cave here.
Eric Rudolph does not approve.
As the National Forest Service pointed out to me, their mission is to manage the resources in the forest, not the people who come into the forest. They are not the same as a National Park. If you need help, call the county sheriff.
Find “lost” people in wilderness. Yeah, and to the fascist leftists there are lots of ways someone could be “lost.” They need to be found, even if they don’t want to be found. That way they can be brought before the truth and reconciliation commissions and helped - sent for re-education so they can properly rejoin the glorious society they envision.
Stand up Bob, OH, G-D love ya, you are!
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