Vozhyk

Vozhyk is an on-device drone awareness app for iPhone. It uses the camera, local object detection, Bluetooth Low Energy scanning, available location/heading context, motion sensors, and best-effort Wi-Fi network information where iOS permits access to help users monitor possible drone-like activity nearby. Version 1.3 includes our improved on-device drone detector model. Compared with the model deployed in version 1.2, held-out test detection quality improved by about 3 times higher at the primary detection-quality threshold and about 6 times higher on the stricter localization-quality measure. The app analyzes the live camera feed on device and can highlight detected objects such as drones, plane-drone objects, aircraft, birds, people, vehicles, and other supported classes. Manual and automatic zoom assistance helps inspect small distant objects while keeping camera analysis local on…