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Re:Show HN: Finding and plotting solar panels in drone video... by cinntaile on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:47PM (#32854750)
How does it distinguish between solar collectors and solar panels?
Re:Show HN: Finding and plotting solar panels in drone video... by yeldarb on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:18PM (#32855313)
It doesn't currently, this[1] is the dataset of ~50 images I collected that I trained the model on.

I'm not really an expert so I just labeled the things I thought looked like solar panels. It's mostly meant to be an example -- if you want to use something like this in a production environment you should definitely spend more than the ~2 hours on image collection, dataset labeling, and training that I did for this!

[1] https://universe.roboflow.com/brad-dwyer/aerial-solar-panels...

Re:Show HN: Finding and plotting solar panels in drone video... by ok_dad on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:03PM (#32857739)
Yea, I spotted a few panel-like objects that weren't captured in the example on the repo. Not sure if they were panels, but now I understand most of this is a framework for doing your own analysis. I suppose using your code, someone could also recognize pickup trucks, people, pools, etc. I think it's really neat that you can do stuff like this with drones these days, and am sad I live too close to a military airbase to use one for anything other than backyard piloting.
Re:Show HN: Finding and plotting solar panels in drone video... by cinntaile on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:35PM (#32855593)
Yeah I was just wondering, it's probably non-trivial to distinguish between them. Cool project though!