Computer Vision News - October 2021

Other generic products the team are working on for the UAV market include a detect and avoid function for detecting manned aircraft , which heavily needs a vision component, so it is not solved yet. They also have emergency landing functionality and tracking functions in the pipeline, and are working on future architecture together with big air taxi manufacturers like Volocopter and DLR . There have been some high-profile concerns about the use of AI in everyday life, including fears that the technology could be exploited by bad actors. Does Stefan think this could be an issue for Spleenlab? “At the moment, we are in a very early stage. We don’t see any potential issues yet, but it’s an important question that we have to keep asking ourselves.” Stefan tells us the most difficult part of this work is the airborne certification and the proof of safety in terms of flight hours or driving hours. Even with safety by design or a deterministic approach, that is still necessary. Many companies claim to have the best drone or UAV on the market, and that they will solve problems like package delivery in the near future, but there is one very important thing that is not solved yet. “It's the positioning system,” Stefan points out. “You need a GPS redundant positioning system , which is safe, but if you want 3 Summary 19 Object Detection with distance estimation Spleenlab