AI crowd counter confuses people with rock columns at Giant's Causeway
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An attempt to count visitors at the Giant's Causeway using Artificial Intelligence (AI) failed because the software could not distinguish between people and the famous hexagonal rock columns.
AI software was used to analyse commercially available drone footage of crowds at the causeway.
However its rock formations share visual features with human figures when viewed from a top-down drone perspective which confused the AI.
The researchers suggest this is because the data used to "train" the AI software model "may not include enough examples of the Giant's Causeway or similar environments, leading the model to generalise incorrectly".
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