https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/10/23827260/skydio-pivot-enterprise-x2
Another one bows to the Chinese juggernaut, so you can't blame open sourcing the autopilot this time.
Reviewers found DJI's obstacle avoidance to be inferior but cheaper. The big features in the last 10 years were tracking & obstacle avoidance, yet to this day no-one outside China really knows how machine vision trackers differentiate a person in a crowd. There's some evidence they might use chroma keying on top of a simple person detector. Person detectors are pretty germane nowadays. You can train efficientdet to detect just humans. Chroma keying is still subject to the vagaries of white balance & lighting. A head recognizer would be a game changer. There's no known head tracker which can recognize a head from all angles. There are only face trackers which only work from in front.
Had decent results with a semi autonomous person detector on a jetson nano but no chroma keying & no obstacle avoidance. For closeup shots in crowd, semi autonomous driving might be here for a long time.
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