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Video Summarization: Using Machine Learning to Process Video from Unmanned Aircraft Systems

January 22, 2018 • Blog

Kevin Pitstick

As the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) increases, the volume of potentially useful video data that UASs capture on their missions is straining the resources of the U.S. military that are needed to process and use this data. This publicly released video is an example of footage captured by a UAS in Iraq. The video shows ISIS fighters herding civilians into a building. U.S. forces did not fire on the building because of the...

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