Video Surveillance System That Reasons Like a Human

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Video Surveillance System That Reasons Like a Human

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 21, 2009 @10:08AM from the robotic-overlords dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BRS Labs has created a technology it calls Behavioral Analytics which uses cognitive reasoning, much like the human brain, to process visual data and to identify criminal and terroristic activities. Built on a framework of cognitive learning engines and computer vision, AISight, provides an automated and scalable surveillance solution that analyzes behavioral patterns, activities and scene content without the need for human training, setup, or programming."

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Proof? by FlyingBishop · 2009-09-21 10:10 · Score: 3, Interesting

Source or it doesn't work.
Bit more info - can it be as good as humans? by xmas2003 · 2009-09-21 10:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

A little more info from the BRS Labs website:
"The system takes the input from existing video security cameras (no need to change equipment); recognizes and identifies the objects in each frame and passes that data to its Machine Learning Engine. There, the system 'learns' what activity is normal for each unique area viewed by each camera. It then stores these LEARNED memories, much the same way the human brain does, and refers back to them with any and all future activities observed by the camera. If any behavior falls outside of the norm, alerts are generated."

Sounds impressive, but will the algorithms be sophisticated enough to watch grass grow and realize that it's normal behavior for the garbage truck to come by weekly ... but still send an alarm when a burgler steals your stuff!

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1. Re:Bit more info - can it be as good as humans? by Brian+Gordon · 2009-09-21 12:33 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  No way that it's as complex as that. My guess is that it gets used to linear motion like cars driving by and develops a tolerance for humans walking by on the way to work, but when there's lots of irregular motion in different directions (ie not just from one side of the frame to the other) there's a good chance something unusual is happening.
  Your system lacks the element of "no human training" mentioned in the summary
Hopefully not like humans by D4C5CE · 2009-09-21 10:54 · Score: 3, Interesting
Who, under video surveillance, tend to act rather irresponsibly:
- Feeling safe(r) when and where they are not, because of the false promise of BB to be watching (over) them.
- Mostly turning a blind eye on crime (and its victims), as the all-seeing eye of BB and/or "someone (else)" will surely take care of it.
- Having learned from an early age to show only herd mentality out of preference falsification in their desperate attempts to try and please the watchmen and be seen to obey "like every other good citizen".
- In the rare instances of courage, not fleeing insurmountable dangers out of the feeling that someone has got to be watching and will send backup any moment now.
Interestingly in Europe after a series of dreadful incidents on live video, this is finally being debated on the eve of general elections: http://www.piratenpartei.de/node/920/29268#comment-29268 - as at the other end of the line, in a situation room (that may be on the next floor or station, and yet too) far away, officers will have to watch events unfold and wish in vain to finally be out there with a gun again (or have sufficient forces to dispatch), e.g. to stop that attacker they can only videotape and helplessly watch wreak havoc on screen.