Deployed research model
EleFind YOLO11
The original aerial detector, evaluated on a 50-image test set and paired with tiled inference for small elephants in large survey photographs.
84.3%
mAP@0.5
50
test images
Find the herd
before the
village does.
Upload geotagged aerial imagery. EleFind returns annotated detections with confidence scores, places each sighting on a shared conservation map, and warns the households nearest to it.
- Survey image
- Upload a geotagged aerial photographBrowser based
- AI detection
- Review boxes and confidence scoresHuman verified
- Map + alert
- Place verified sightings on the shared mapConservation workflow
The problem
One of Asia’s deadliest borders is a field edge.
Ground patrols cannot cover the corridor, so conflict is discovered after it happens. Aerial survey plus computer vision moves the discovery earlier.
100+
elephants killed per year in Sri Lanka
50+
human lives lost to the same conflict
Why EleFind?
Aerial detection that does more than draw boxes.
EleFind turns geotagged drone imagery into mapped elephant sightings through a browser-accessible workflow — aerial-image detection, geographic visualisation, confidence filtering, community-recorded crossing zones and proximity alerts in one platform.
01
Browser-based — nothing to install locally
02
Built specifically for aerial and drone imagery
03
Converts geotagged detections into map locations
04
Warns nearby households when a sighting is verified
Detection models
Two generations, documented in full.
The landing page now keeps the results brief. Each model has a dedicated report with its evaluation protocol, training figures, comparison graphs, inference settings and known limitations.
- detections
- 2
- crossing zones
- 0
Evaluation complete · launch ready
EleFind YOLO26s
The next-generation detector, evaluated on 439 held-out full-resolution images with point-based metrics and a direct YOLO11s baseline comparison.
0.9002
point AP
439
test images
Explainability
Detection you can visually inspect
Explainability visualisations show the model concentrating on visible elephant body regions rather than unrelated background features such as vegetation, water, bare ground or shadows.
Detection output
Grad-CAM activationCommunity alertsComing soon
Live near the corridor? Ask to be warned.
Register the area you live in and pick a radius. When an officer verifies a sighting inside it, EleFind sends an SMS in your language — with what was seen, how far away, and what to do next. Your home location is stored coarsely and never shown on the public map.
SMS · 18:26
EleFind: 4 elephants seen ~3 km north-east of Hingurakgoda at 18:24. Avoid the Minneriya road tonight. Reply STOP to unsubscribe.
SMS
in Sinhala, Tamil or English
5 km grid
home location stored coarsely
Best results
Clear aerial views, open terrain and sparse vegetation.
Manual review recommended
Dense canopy, woodland boundaries, heavy occlusion or uncertain detections.
Scope
A research decision-support tool — not a replacement for professional wildlife assessment, and not an emergency warning service.