FortifAI being used for vehicle detection during testing. (Vizgard )
London-based technology company Vizgard is working on two projects to bring its visual autonomy software FortifAI to the battlefield in Ukraine, Vizgard founder and CEO Alex Kehoe told Janes in a 10 June interview.
The first project involves a partnership with UK defence company Overwatch Group. Vizgard is incorporating its FortifAI software, and ground control software, into Overwatch Group’s next-generation unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a co-axial configuration called Apex.
The first batch of new UAVs with FortifAI integrated is undergoing trials and will be sent to Ukraine in the next three or four weeks, according to Kehoe.
FortifAI
FortifAI can process multiple camera feeds and on multiple platforms. “We’re processing forward-looking [images], downward facing, and also a gimbal to automatically detect and classify during the day and night time.” The accuracy largely depends on the cameras being used. Kehoe said 60 pixels is the minimum needed for accurate artificial intelligence (AI)-based object classification. FortifAI gives an identified object a track within three frames, less than 100 milliseconds.
The software can be integrated onto systems including ground control stations or on multiple UAVs. “You could have the software controlling a drone in the sky and also controlling a ground pan-tilt camera that’s looking for other drones at the same time.”
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