Forged In Flames: Startup Fuses Generative Ai, Computer Vision To Fight Wildfires
NVIDIA News, Thursday, June 15,2023
NVIDIA Inception and Metropolis member Chooch is pioneering a hybrid AI technology in response to devastating wildfires in California.
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When California skies turned orange in the wake of devastating wildfires, a startup fused computer vision and generative AI to fight back.
'With the 2020 wildfires, it became very personal, so we asked fire officials how we could help,' said Emrah Gultekin, the Turkish-born CEO of Chooch, a Silicon Valley-based leader in computer vision.
California utilities and fire services, they learned, were swamped with as many as 2,000 false positives a week from an existing wildfire detection system. The wrong predictions came from fog, rain and smudges on the lenses of a network of cameras they used.