Drones Use Machine Learning to Detect Landmines

Using advanced machine learning, drones could be used to detect dangerous “butterfly” landmines in remote regions of post-conflict countries. Researchers had previously developed a method that allowed for highly accurate detection of butterfly landmines using low-cost commercial drones equipped with infrared cameras. New research focuses on automated detection of landmines using convolutional neural networks, the standard machine learning method for object detection and classification in the field of remote sensing.