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I'd really like to know more about the "target identification" software, specifically how it differentiates a person holding a gun from someone holding a shovel

I'd really like to know more about the "target identification" software, specifically how it differentiates a person holding a gun from someone holding a shovel (or any stick object).

tim333 10y ago
I guess they'd run a neural net with a training set of pictures of people with guns and without? Edit- I don't know what they used but you can achieve somewhat similar results using open source libraries like dlib or open cv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8-KCoOFfqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8-KCoOFfqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-QuE6pdEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-QuE6pdEQ
- jstanley 10y ago
  And if the training set doesn't include people holding shovels?
  - MrZongle2 10y ago
    You're going to end up with some dead ditch-diggers. And some software engineers to take the blame, rather than military brass.
    - posterboy 10y ago
      those engineers would probably be brassed
- LanceH 10y ago
  I imagine it would be more like anyone within a geofence without an IFF.
detritus 10y ago
So in future weapons firms will be making armaments that look ostensibly like non-threatening objects? Future wars are going to look really weird (for the half second or so they last, anyway).
rhino369 10y ago
If you only use the technology on battlefields then it doesn't really matter. The weapons used now kill indiscriminately. I'd expect the first several generations will just have a kill box area and kill anything that moves in that box. Not really different than an artillary barage.