Comment DETECT below and I’ll DM you the full breakdown + GitHub links.
Someone fine-tuned one AI model to detect and track anything from a drone camera
Trees in a forest. Cars in traffic. Players on a pitch.
Same model. Different data. Different use case every time.
→ RF-DETR — open-source, real-time object detection
→ Fine-tuned on forest drone data — counts every tree automatically
→ Ran on city traffic — tracks every vehicle through intersections
→ Applied to football — detects players, maps formations
→ Paired with OC-SORT tracker for real-time object tracking across frames
No field teams. No manual surveys. No expensive software.
Just a model, a drone, and the right dataset.
The code is free. The datasets are public.
He’s already building demos for wind turbines, solar panels, and power lines next.
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Hey! Here’s everything on the RF-DETR project I talked about:
RF-DETR Model (open source, Apache 2.0)
→
github.com/roboflow/rf-detr
RF-DETR + Trackers (detection + tracki...