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How to Do Real Time Object Detection on Drones

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Re: How to Do Real Time Object Detection on Drones

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We at Nanonets have been building a lot of Machine Learning models for drone based image analysis. A frequent request from our customers is how do they use our models to do real time analysis. So we decided to create a how to on building real time object detection using a DJI drone.

Also useful if you're just looking to get the video stream to your laptop/computer.

Re: How to Do Real Time Object Detection on Drones

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We at Nanonets have been building a lot of Machine Learning models for drone based image analysis. A frequent request from our customers is how do they use our models to do real time analysis. So we decided to create a how to on building real time object detection using a DJI drone. Also useful if you're just looking to get the video stream to your laptop/computer.

Awesome, was looking for something like this. Will definitely try it out. What rate (fps) were you able to process the stream at?

Re: How to Do Real Time Object Detection on Drones

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We at Nanonets have been building a lot of Machine Learning models for drone based image analysis. A frequent request from our customers is how do they use our models to do real time analysis. So we decided to create a how to on building real time object detection using a DJI drone. Also useful if you're just looking to get the video stream to your laptop/computer.

Awesome, was looking for something like this. Will definitely try it out. What rate (fps) were you able to process the stream at?

Depending on size of model between 30 and 5 fps

Re: How to Do Real Time Object Detection on Drones

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Title seems a little (maybe a lot?) misleading. It's not "on drones" it's actually on a video stream coming from a drone. There's a huge difference: you're doing all of the processing on a desktop/laptop PC.

There's some mention at the end of the article on how to attach a PC to the drone, but basically it would be the same thing: just run the processing on a PC.

Just by the title, I was expecting a clever way to run a pre-trained model directly on a drone.

Re: How to Do Real Time Object Detection on Drones

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Wow. Combine this with the ability to drop some of the latest nano-sensors (atoms strung together to build dust-sized sensors and batteries and power at scale), and we should be able to monitor absolutely everything everywhere. Let's see anyone even try to object to my rules or procure a weapon!

And given some on-board weapons, we would never have to worry about civil unrest again. Only people grateful for the food and job they are allowed to be in our society. Utopia!

Re: How to Do Real Time Object Detection on Drones

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Wow. Combine this with the ability to drop some of the latest nano-sensors (atoms strung together to build dust-sized sensors and batteries and power at scale), and we should be able to monitor absolutely everything everywhere. Let's see anyone even try to object to my rules or procure a weapon! And given some on-board weapons, we would never have to worry about civil unrest again. Only people grateful for the food a…

Hey MrTonyD. I understand where your coming from. But honestly most people are using this for monitoring things like Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, detecting seals and crop prediction. We can't have a sustainable future without a lot of these technologies in place. https://nanonets.com/drone/wind-turbines/ https://nanonets.com/drone/solar-panels/

All new technology will have some deviant use case associated with it. The internet is one of the worst enablers of child pornography, human trafficking and everything disgusting with the world. However it just means you try and control the use of technology not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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