The Russian Defense Ministry has given more than 40 organizations access to videos of drone combat use, which they can use to train artificial intelligence for drones. According to estimates by one Russian manufacturer, the archive may already contain hundreds of terabytes of video.
The Russian Defense Ministry has given more than 40 organizations access to videos of drone combat use, which they can use to train artificial intelligence for drones. According to estimates by one Russian manufacturer, the archive may already contain hundreds of terabytes of video.
This is reported by Militarny, citing Russian sources.
To train the AI, they collected footage from FPV drones, copters, and aircraft-type drones. There are videos from both radio-controlled and fiber-optic drones. Such footage helps train the neural network to recognize targets in real combat conditions. But first, you need to mark the frames — that is, mark which objects are depicted in them.
According to one Russian developer, training to recognize a particular type of target may require thousands of high-quality video examples. It is difficult to collect so much material on your own, which is why companies need a shared archive.
Developers are also required to upload the results of their work back to the platform, where they will be validated and can be used to create other neural networks for military purposes.
Previously, dev.ua wrote about the Ukrainian platform Brave1 Dataroom, created jointly with the American Palantir. It also allows training military AI on real battlefield data.
