This Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t

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His plan was to climb Creise, a 1,100-meter-high peak overlooking Glen Etive, the remote Highland valley made famous by the James Bond film Skyfall...

In the days following Kelly disappearance, Glencoe Mountain Rescue launched what they later described as a Herculean search effort, using sniffer dogs, quad bikes, multiple helicopters, and drones equipped with infrared and conventional camera equipment..

On October 24, Binks, Roach, and Dan Parsons, a friend and fellow MR team member of Roachs, who had helped with early testing, traveled to Glencoe..

It wasnt until Roach met David Binks, a retired software developer who volunteers with Duddon & Furness MR, which covers an area about 30 miles south of Cockermouth, that the idea really began to take shape..

Roach and Parsons janky off-the-peg version involved inputting the specific colors that you wanted to search for, but Binks, crucially, realized it would be easier to flip that on its head..