Living near a bunch of the military bases, this is what I really need. My suburban defense system keeps mistaking USPS trucks for APCs.
I haven’t received any mail for months.
Sidenote: what are the export restriction?
I created it after joining my neighborhood NextDoor.
Anyway, I have never found this skit mentioned in any of the documentation of the show but I know I saw it live, on Saturday night back before Belushi snorted his last snort.
Is... This an american thing? What the heck is a suburban defense system?
- UPS, United Parcel Service (a for-profit; USPS is notoriously not-for-profit).
- UPS, Uninterruptable Power Supply
APC - Armored Personell Carrier -- military vechicle for transporting troops. Not to be confused with:
- APC, Formerly American Power Conversion Company, now an initials-only brand of some conglomerate, who coincidently make UPS units (the electronic device, not the delivery drivers).
[0] - https://xkcd.com/2128/
It's not just for drones, it's for any overhead imaging.
This can be used for all kinds of things like search and rescue, traffic monitoring, watching for wildfires, disaster response, monitoring parking lots as an economic indicator, etc.
Fly a handful of drones over the area of a fleeing suspect and be able to track their whereabouts and look for suspicious behaviors (eg. someone running and making constant turns in a city or doubling back often, cutting through alleys).
Hell fly a few drones of the city to monitor foot traffic of the population and determine possible points of interest for new developments. Where are people walking to? How do they tend to get there? Can we optimize traffic for them - or more realistically - around them?
Could be used for other forms of crowd analysis too such as how to best disperse a riot and separate a crowd.
Sorry I guess I'm about as pessimistic as you are about it. Use in S&R like throwup238 suggested seems like a good non-militaristic fit for it.
Oh and also this which was posted on HN not too long ago: https://dropofahat.zone/
When you'd only need CCTV to confirm with facial recognition that your suspect was in the area you wouldn't need CCTV coordination - that would be the entire point of deploying a WALDO network. It lowers the number of CCTV you'd need to coordinate with to track someone's movements.
Buy satellite images of container ports, count the number of containers, predict performance of economy based on containers and invest accordingly.
Presidential candidate has an open-air rally and you want to figure out how many people are attending? Buy a satellite image scheduled for that exact hour and let WALDO count the people.
Financing a number of large construction projects but don't trust the progress reports? Buy regularly scheduled satellite images and let WALDO count the number of trucks and construction vehicles.
Want to invest in the construction business? Guess what, buy satellite images, count trucks and construction vehicles, make investment decisions based on that
What else? Any thing-description?
If an object leaves the view and re-enters, does it get the same id?
Is there a non public version with very reliable arm/mil? Is there a version which can reliably distinguish T-80 with and without Z?
The difficulty is in the training data, both acquiring it and labeling it. Hence why the readme of WALDO alludes so much to their semi-synthetic data. That's also why this commercial project is happy to give out the models, but doesn't publish their data pipeline.
If you have about 100 satellite images each of T-80s with and without Zs, and a couple other satellite images of other tanks and of landscapes without any tanks you can train a T-80 detecting model in a couple hours. And then spend a couple days in a rabbit hole where you figure out that because in your training set only images with tanks had smoke clouds the model now thinks that smoke clouds are linked to tanks, and you end up making larger and larger data sets with tanks and non-tanks from all angles.
Rough.
Medium altitude aerial drone imagery would do it, though - just a matter of building something so cheap & plentiful that it's not worthwhile to shoot down.
Who knows, maybe we've given Ukraine the keys to the castle and they're getting a steady stream of 10cm imagery from the NRO.
> I'm planning to set up a way for people to get the .pt files and the ONNX models with unlimited outputs for people who support further development of the project on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/stephansturges), the goal being to offset some of the cost of training these networks (over 60K USD spent on AWS to date! )
Not everyone has that kind of spare cash around
But they should now have tons of video data with their landscape and their threats to fine-tune on. It's going to need plenty of labor but they also happen to have tons of maimed soldiers who can't fight anymore.
I know you aren't going to release the dataset but I'd be interesting in any info you are willing to share on augmentations you used and how you generated the synthetic imagery, and what sort of lift you got out of it.