Researchers use AI to find old bombs from Vietnam war - Express Computer

Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to detect Vietnam War-era bomb craters in Cambodia from satellite images – with the hope that it can help find unexploded bombs in near future. The new method increased true bomb crater detection by more than 160 per cent over standard methods, they said. The model, combined with declassified US military records, suggests that 44 to 50 per cent of the bombs in the area studied may remain unexploded. "As of now, attempts to find and safely remove unexploded bombs and landmines – called demining – has not been as effective as needed in Cambodia," said study researcher Erin Lin from Ohio State University in the US. For the findings, published in the journal PLOS One, the researchers started with a commercial satellite image of a 100-square-kilometre area near the town of Kampong Trabaek in Cambodia.