Akshita Vashisht

Can Foundation Models See From Above? A Zero-Shot Evaluation of SAM 3 on Aerial Drone Imagery

Drones increasingly depend on real-time object detection for surveillance, search-and-rescue, and infrastructure inspection, yet current onboard pipelines rely on supervised models such as You Only Look Once (YOLO) that must be retrained whenever the target class set changes. Open-vocabulary foundation models offer a p...