A Chinese military research team says its AI technology was 95 per cent accurate in locating an object when the Jilin-1 satellite streamed video of various moving small targets. Photo: Shutterstock
A Chinese military research team says its AI technology was 95 per cent accurate in locating an object when the Jilin-1 satellite streamed video of various moving small targets. Photo: Shutterstock
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Chinese AI turns commercial satellite into a spy tracker able to follow small objects with precision: paper

  • Paper details team’s work creating artificial intelligence to continue tracking an object on the ground, even after it turns sharply or disappears into a tunnel
  • The AI algorithm could be uploaded to processors on some of China’s Earth observation satellites already in orbit without any ground assistance: researchers

A Chinese military research team says its AI technology was 95 per cent accurate in locating an object when the Jilin-1 satellite streamed video of various moving small targets. Photo: Shutterstock
A Chinese military research team says its AI technology was 95 per cent accurate in locating an object when the Jilin-1 satellite streamed video of various moving small targets. Photo: Shutterstock
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