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WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects

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Depending from how high it can reliably work from, collaborate with UK CCTV surveillance so that you can better track individuals with fewer cameras as long as you can collate them with cameras that confirm their position at various points in time. Fly a handful of drones over the area of a fleeing suspect and be able to track their whereabouts and look for suspicious behaviors (eg. someone running and making constan…

No such thing as a coordinated UK cctv network. Absolute nonsense.

I understand the vast majority of CCTV is private-sector. That doesn't matter when it is handed over to the government with little to no push back when the government asks for the footage.

When you'd only need CCTV to confirm with facial recognition that your suspect was in the area you wouldn't need CCTV coordination - that would be the entire point of deploying a WALDO network. It lowers the number of CCTV you'd need to coordinate with to track someone's movements.

https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/cctv/

Re: WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects

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> My suburban defense system keeps mistaking USPS trucks for APCs. Is... This an american thing? What the heck is a suburban defense system?

It's a joke.

A friend of mine has motion sensors connected to an automatic sprinklers to keep the deer from eating his plants. It works pretty well, even though it doesn't use AI. Just motion sensors.

Re: WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects

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> 'arm/mil' --> this class detects certain types of armored vehicles (very unreliable for now, don't use it yet) Living near a bunch of the military bases, this is what I really need. My suburban defense system keeps mistaking USPS trucks for APCs. I haven’t received any mail for months. Sidenote: what are the export restriction?

> My suburban defense system keeps mistaking USPS trucks for APCs. Is... This an american thing? What the heck is a suburban defense system?

USPS - United States Postal Service (the governmental mail delivery organization). Not to be confused with:

- UPS, United Parcel Service (a for-profit; USPS is notoriously not-for-profit).

- UPS, Uninterruptable Power Supply

APC - Armored Personell Carrier -- military vechicle for transporting troops. Not to be confused with:

- APC, Formerly American Power Conversion Company, now an initials-only brand of some conglomerate, who coincidently make UPS units (the electronic device, not the delivery drivers).

Re: WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects

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Hey, thanks for posting. New release is coming tomorrow on HF BTW. AMA

Any specific changes with the new release?

new dataset, new classes and model is yolov8 because most people prefer it. Also open weights.
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