Attention Rogue Drone Pilots: AI Can See You (ieee.org) 32
schwit1 quotes IEEE Spectrum:
The minute details of rogue drone's movements in the air may unwittingly reveal the drone pilot's location — possibly enabling authorities to bring the drone down before, say, it has the opportunity to disrupt air traffic or cause an accident. And it's possible without requiring expensive arrays of radio triangulation and signal-location antennas. So says a team of Israeli researchers who have trained an AI drone-tracking algorithm to reveal the drone operator's whereabouts, with a better than 80% accuracy level. They are now investigating whether the algorithm can also uncover the pilot's level of expertise and even possibly their identity...
Depending on the specific terrain at any given airport, a pilot operating a drone near a camouflaging patch of forest, for instance, might have an unobstructed view of the runway. But that location might also be a long distance away, possibly making the operator more prone to errors in precise tracking of the drone. Whereas a pilot operating nearer to the runway may not make those same tracking errors but may also have to contend with big blind spots because of their proximity to, say, a parking garage or control tower. And in every case, he said, simple geometry could begin to reveal important clues about a pilot's location, too. When a drone is far enough away, motion along a pilot's line of sight can be harder for the pilot to detect than motion perpendicular to their line of sight. This also could become a significant factor in an AI algorithm working to discover pilot location from a particular drone flight pattern.
The sum total of these various terrain-specific and terrain-agnostic effects, then, could be a giant finger pointing to the operator.
Depending on the specific terrain at any given airport, a pilot operating a drone near a camouflaging patch of forest, for instance, might have an unobstructed view of the runway. But that location might also be a long distance away, possibly making the operator more prone to errors in precise tracking of the drone. Whereas a pilot operating nearer to the runway may not make those same tracking errors but may also have to contend with big blind spots because of their proximity to, say, a parking garage or control tower. And in every case, he said, simple geometry could begin to reveal important clues about a pilot's location, too. When a drone is far enough away, motion along a pilot's line of sight can be harder for the pilot to detect than motion perpendicular to their line of sight. This also could become a significant factor in an AI algorithm working to discover pilot location from a particular drone flight pattern.
The sum total of these various terrain-specific and terrain-agnostic effects, then, could be a giant finger pointing to the operator.
Drones typically have cameras. (Score:5, Informative)
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Does the video stream transmission work when there are buildings in the line of sight? I'd assume that they use low-power 2.4 GHz radios, which get attenuated a lot by building materials.
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Doh.
Well... (Score:2)
We can't let just anyone record what the Big Man doesn't want recorded from above.
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At an airport I'm sure they're far more concerned about you flying your drone into a jet engine on a plane about to take off.
Large amounts of autonomous drones (Score:2)
loaded with explosives and all headed to the same target are the future.
No pilot required.
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Please show me an actual working EMP device in use today.
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Please show me an actual working EMP device in use today.
Well, any nuclear bomb. :-)
Re:Large amounts of autonomous drones (Score:5, Informative)
loaded with explosives and all headed to the same target are the future.
That isn't the future. It was last year: 2019 Houthi drone attack on Saudi oil facility [wikipedia.org]
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Just maybe, you should read your citation that gives equal or more weight to it being an Iranian attack using more vehicles of more sophisticated design. Yes I too am skeptical when the U.S. pushes the latter, but even liars tell the truth some time. What pushed me to give more weight to the latter explanation was it seems to have been the view of most of the nations within the EU.
Drone Opertors laugh in the general direction. (Score:2)
Flying 30 feet away or 30km or 300km away from the operator is going to make no difference over a 250ms latency link. Its tough but not hard to do in close proximity to a lot of objects.
What does this matter, there is only a rash of sightings of d
Need a different font for Subject lines. (Score:2)
As I read "AI can see you", my first thought was "Who's this Alan they're talking about"?
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If your goal is to bring the thing down then why do you have to locate the pilot?
It's Israeli research so the goal is to know which village to bulldoze or steal in "justified retaliation".
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If your goal is to bring the thing down then why do you have to locate the pilot?
Because artillery fire is probably one of the options being considered.
paid advertisement? (Score:2)
IEEE now blindly reprint press-releases from shady companies selling fear-mongering anti boogeyman terrorist A.I.?
AI red herring again (Score:2)
Difficult to express my level of disappointment .. (Score:3, Insightful)
I expected better from the IEEE (members') Journal. How could they have published such a simple minded guided research where they called upon A.I. to validate the basis, then make unwarranted, over blown claims that even at first sight (i.e. just reading the article and knowing the thinnest bit about drone flight) the beginning assumptions were false as well as the methods employed?
This article is embarrassing, can it just be deleted?
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IEEE Spectrum is not a members only journal. It's the IEEE magazine, and t
Thank heaven for small mercies (Score:2)
DJI knows (Score:1)
So ineffective on most drones (Score:2)
Drone Flying is Not a Crime (Score:2)