{"id":242818,"date":"2026-07-13T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/why-drones-and-ai-cant-quickly-find-missing-flood-victims-yet\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:50:12","slug":"why-drones-and-ai-cant-quickly-find-missing-flood-victims-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/why-drones-and-ai-cant-quickly-find-missing-flood-victims-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why drones and AI can\u2019t quickly find missing flood victims, yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/news\/article\/why-drones-and-ai-can-t-quickly-find-missing-22343379.php\">Why drones and AI can\u2019t quickly find missing flood victims, yet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/news\/article\/why-drones-and-ai-can-t-quickly-find-missing-22343379.php\">https:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/news\/article\/why-drones-and-ai-can-t-quickly-find-missing-22343379.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 13:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newstimes.com\">www.newstimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Summary of the Article on AI in Search and Rescue:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Speed<\/strong>: AI systems, specifically through computer vision and machine learning, significantly outpace human responders in scanning high-resolution drone imagery, often completing this task in under a second compared to one to three minutes for humans.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Limitations<\/strong>: Despite their speed, current AI systems are not accurate enough to replace human search-and-rescue teams in finding flood victims. This includes issues like high error rates in detection due to the unique and complex imagery created by flood conditions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Specialized Challenges<\/strong>: Flood victims often present distinct visual challenges to AI, including being obscured by debris, water, and mud, which differ substantially from the indicators used for more straightforward search-and-rescue situations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Lack of Training Data<\/strong>: There is a shortage of training datasets containing aerial imagery of individuals tangled in flood-related debris, complicating the development of precise machine learning classifiers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Geographical Inaccuracies<\/strong>: Drones often capture imagery at oblique angles, leading to imprecise GPS coordinates for targeted search areas, which requires additional manual verification.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI-Human Collaboration<\/strong>: While AI systems alone are currently insufficient, combining them with human search-and-rescue teams offers better search efficiency by prioritizing potentially critical areas and aiding faster response.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Potential<\/strong>: With improvements in training data and algorithm accuracy, AI could eventually play a more significant role in helping to identify debris and human signs, especially in early search stages and later verifying no areas were overlooked.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why drones and AI can\u2019t quickly find missing flood victims, yet https:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/news\/article\/why-drones-and-ai-can-t-quickly-find-missing-22343379.php Publish Date: 2026-07-13&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/34\/02\/56\/24128432\/3\/rawImage.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242820,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242818\/revisions\/242820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}