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Image recognition
& classification project

An AI-powered computer vision platform enabling real-time object recognition directly onboard UAVs, improving situational awareness and accelerating mission-critical decision-making.

Industry

MilTech

Client

UAV Manufacturer

Platform

Web-based + Onboard AI Integration

Partnership model

Dedicated
Development Team

Client Context

A UAV manufacturer sought to enhance reconnaissance and monitoring missions by augmenting operators with automated visual intelligence. Previously, teams relied on manual interpretation of live drone video streams, creating cognitive overload and delayed reactions in dynamic operational environments.

The client required onboard AI capable of assisting human operators without compromising performance on constrained hardware.

Challenge

  • Operational Complexity: continuous manual monitoring of live video streams reduced operator efficiency.

  • Hardware Constraints: AI models needed to operate reliably on limited onboard computing resources.

  • Environmental Variability: changing terrains, lighting conditions, and object types impacted recognition accuracy.

  • Decision Reliability: outputs had to remain interpretable and trustworthy for human validation.

UAV object detection demo

Solution

We built a real-time edge AI pipeline optimized for UAV environments. Live video streams are processed directly on UAV hardware, with synchronization to central analytics for mission intelligence.

The system integrates onboard object detection, classification, and pattern clustering, with confidence scoring for human-in-the-loop validation and MLOps pipelines for continuous model improvement.

Team

  • 1x

    Computer Vision Engineer

  • 1x

    ML Engineer

  • 1x

    DevOps Engineer

  • 1x

    Data Scientist

  • 2x

    Data Engineers

  • 1x

    QA Engineer

  • 1x

    Project Manager

  • 1x

    Computer Vision Engineer

  • 1x

    ML Engineer

  • 1x

    Data Scientist

  • 2x

    Data Engineers

  • 1x

    QA Engineer

  • 1x

    DevOps Engineer

  • 1x

    Project Manager

What We Delivered

  • Real-time video analysis engine

  • Computer vision recognition models

  • Edge inference modules

  • Object clustering algorithms

  • Mission logging & synchronization system

  • ML lifecycle pipelines

Timeline & Cost

Full breakdown is available under NDA, on request

Discovery & Planning: 3–4 weeks

Architecture & Design: 4–6 weeks

Development: 4–6 months

Total Timeline: ~6–8 months

Discovery Phase: $25K–$40K

Design & Architecture: $40K–$70K

Development: $180K–$320K

Total Investment: $300K–$450K

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Impact & Results

Operational:

Reduced operator cognitive load and accelerated field response

Technical:

Stable edge AI inference and scalable ML lifecycle

Business:

Improved mission efficiency and decision accuracy

Technology Stack

  • Faster R-CNN
  • CLAHE
  • YOLOv8
  • MMDetection
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • C++
  • Ultralytics
  • Docker
  • and more...

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