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Sharkeye: Real-Time Autonomous Personal Shark Alerting Via Aerial Surveillance, Robert A. Gorkin Iii, Kye Adams, Matthew J. Berryman, Sam Aubin, Wanqing Li, Andrew R. Davis, Johan Barthelemy

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While aerial shark spotting has been a standard practice for beach safety for decades, new technologies offer enhanced opportunities, ranging from drones/unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that provide new viewing capabilities, to new apps that provide beachgoers with up-to-date risk analysis before entering the water. This report describes the Sharkeye platform, a first-of-its-kind project to demonstrate personal shark alerting for beachgoers in the water and on land, leveraging innovative UAV image collection, cloud-hosted machine learning detection algorithms, and reporting via smart wearables. To execute, our team developed a novel detection algorithm trained via machine learning based on aerial footage of real …