Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity

Repton writes with news of a company, Behavioral Recognition Systems, that has received 16 patents on a new video surveillance application that can convert video images into machine-readable language, and then analyze them for anomalies that suggest suspicious behavior in the camera's field of view. The software can 'recognize' up to 300 objects and establish a baseline of activity. It should go on sale in September. "...the BRS Labs technology will likely create a fair number of false positives, [the CEO] concedes. 'We think a three-to-one ratio of alerts to actual events is what the market will accept,' he says. 'We could be wrong.'"

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Re:One out of four ain't bad

[oodaloop]

Well, there's over 20,000 people in U.S. custody in Iraq right now (not including several thousand more in Iraqi custody), the vast majority of which I would call terrorists (caught in direct action against U.S. troops, confirmed IED makers, snipers, members of almost every middle-eastern terrorist group, etc). We haven't even caught ONE million, let alone several, so your ratio must have been pulled from your AC troll ass.

Re:Doesn't need to be all that accurate

[Hurricane78]

> > So this will not only mean "search person X, because the computer tells us he is a thief". It will mean they keep searching till they find something.

> I think your foil hat is too tight.

I think you never got in such a situation. I did. I'm happy I got away with my life. I did not find it funny! So STFU and get some perspective. Guess which country it was....