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Re:WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable... by throwup238 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @03:46PM (#41724380)
> The basic model shared here, which is the only one published as FOSS at the moment, is capable of detecting these classes of items in overhead images ranging in altitude from about 30 feet to satellite imagery with a resolution of 50cm per pixel or better.

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.

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Re:WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable... by stephanst on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:53AM (#41727487)
it is being used a lot for disaster response and traffic monitoring yep. Also surprisingly to me for analytics on utilisation of all kinds of infrastructure y trading firms. One of the bigger motivations to make it free was to see where people use the base model to understand whether there is a market there for a fine-tuned / more specialized version.
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