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Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity

Posted by kdawson on from the unblinking-eye dept.

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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  1. Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Reading this article, it just leaves me wondering...

    What smart-ass ironic sentence tag is good for this one?

    1. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Apparently the answer is:

      "usualisnotabnormal"

      Whatever that's supposed to mean.

    2. Re:Hmm... by TheP4st · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Apparently the answer is:

      "unusualisnotabnormal"

      There, fixed that for you.

      --
      "I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
  2. what a concidence by ya+really · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I just was just viewing this right before logging onto slashdot and seeing this topic.

  3. mod uP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    addre5ses will you can. No,

  4. Re:Doesn't need to be all that accurate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm surprised it wan't modded flamebait or overrated. because, like, OMG, privacyninteenhundredandeightyfourthosandeleventyyoneununconstitutional!!!

  5. Re:Cool by vilgefortz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who's that? Put me down!