Image Recognition:

Overview:

SAR Technology’s Searchlight Image Locator – Scans thousands of images:  Persons, Aircraft, Helicopters, Vehicles, Vessels, Color, General, SOS, Ship-Wake, Oil-Spill, Clothing/Apparel, Textures/Patterns, Travel, Food, Celebrity images – for the target objects.

Image Recognition missions consist of automatically taking hundreds of overlapping images while flying a route or specific Flight Plan pattern over a defined search area. These digital images are then rapidly computer-scanned by the Searchlight Image Locator to find any containing the target object.

Benefits:

– Image Recognition Flights
– deliver much larger area coverage (50-200X) than typical ground-search procedures.
– Image Recognition can significantly improve target object detection compared to visual searching.
– Image Recognition can detect specific-colored, rotated or only partially-visible target objects.
– Image Recognition is essentially time-independent (unlike FLIR).
– Missions may be started or continued for many days or even weeks after the initial event.
– Increases Responder Safety – by remote searching for objects in dangerous terrain.
– Permits time-constrained brief ‘Windows of Opportunity’ searches.
– Generates a permanent record of the aerial search coverage.
– Creates multiple opportunities to review stored search images.
– Provides the responder with faster, larger-area and higher-detection searches.
– Assists the responder with even the most challenging search missions.

Image Scans

– Users scan their own images into the online Searchlight Image Locator webpage
– to look for the target objects or color within their uploaded image collection.
– Still images (.jpg or .png) taken by drones, aircraft, helicopters, action cameras, digital cameras and cellphones, may all be scanned by the Searchlight Image Locator.  See Image Guidelines

Location Geotag:

Images should be taken, if possible, with Location Enabled, to add the Latitude-Longitude geotag to each image in the scan report.
Tip: Confirm that location has been enabled before taking the full collection of images.

SAR Technology’s ‘Image Commander‘ software can also be used to geo-tag submitted images.

Target Image:

Wherever possible images of (or similar to) the target should also be scanned, to improve the image recognition and segmentation accuracy.

    Crashed Aircraft Recognition:

– Extensive library of crashed aircraft images.
– Includes commercial, military and light aircraft.
– Located in a wide variety of terrains.

    Crashed Helicopter Recognition:

– Extensive library of crashed helicopter images.
– Includes commercial and military helicopters.
– Located in a wide variety of terrains.

    Missing Vessel Recognition – Vessels, Ship-Wakes and Oil-Spills

   

– Extensive library of Vessels and Watercraft.
– Custom library of Ship-Wakes.
– Custom library of Oil-Spills.
– Vessels engaged in commercial and recreational activities.
– Located in a wide variety of marine environments.

    People Recognition – In Back-Country, Urban Settings & Culture

   

– Extensive Libraries of people images.
– People in Backcountry Locations.
– People in Urban Settings.
– SAR/Police/Security/General Investigations.

People Classification:

– Identify People by Cultural Group.

– Identify People By Age Group.

– Identify People by Gender.

   Vehicle Recognition – In Back-Country, Vehicles & People

   

– Extensive Libraries of Vehicle images.
– Wide range of Vehicle Types.
– Vehicles engaged in Off-Road/Back-Country travel.
– Vehicles and People in the same image.
– SAR/Police/Security/General Investigations.
– Vehicles in a wide variety of Terrains.

    General Image Recognition:

– Comprehensive General image library.
– Extensive collection of image types.
– High quality image collections.
– 19 Major Image Categories.
– Over 11,000 Image Keywords.

(displayed images are representative)

Image Recognition Overview

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