Surveillance Cameras and ‘Activity Forecasting’
October 27th, 2012Via: Cnet:
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.
The U.S. government has funded the development of so-called automatic video surveillance technology by a pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers who disclosed details about their work this week — including that it has an ultimate goal of predicting what people will do in the future.
“The main applications are in video surveillance, both civil and military,” Alessandro Oltramari, a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon who has a Ph.D. from Italy’s University of Trento, told CNET yesterday.
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Mobile Phone Data Used to Predict Where People Will Be Tomorrow
AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance
Research Credit: HongPong
