Artificial Intelligence based Drones can find Lost People in Woods

Today drones can maneuver indoors, around difficult to reach nooks, bends and even dense forests too. 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 imagers installed on camera and in chopper sensors, to find the missing. Generally, the thermal imaging devices highlight differences in body temperature of people on the ground versus their surroundings, making them easier to spot.