Detection and tracking

Drone detection and tracking (deep learning approach)

Yueru Chen, Pranav Aggarwal, Jongmoo Choi, and C.-C. Jay Kuo, A Deep Learning Approach to Drone Monitoring, APSIPA 2017 special sessions on deep learning, 2017.

SPOT (Systematic POacher deTector) Poachers in Action

(IMAGE) A screenshot of the field test environment with detected poachers.

Co-work with USC CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SOCIETY

http://airshepherd.org/

NBC News: Drones Used to Stop Elephant and Rhino Poachers in Africa [LINK]

Big Think: A.I. "predator" drones can now spot and track illegal poachers [LINK]

E. Bondi, F. Fang, M. Hamilton, D. Kar, D. Dmello, J. Choi, R. Hannaford, A. Iyer, M. Tambe, R. Nevatia, SPOT Poachers in Action: Augmenting Conservation Drones with Automatic Detection in Near Real Time, IAAI 2017 (submitted, LINK).

Object detection and tracking

Design Pseudo Ground Truth with Motion Cue for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation, ACCV 2019 (accepted)