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US Spends $11M To Kick-Start Video Search

Posted by samzenpus on from the glued-to-the-screen dept.

coondoggie writes "The US military is inundated with video from airborne unmanned aircraft, remote monitoring systems and security outposts. In an effort to speed up the processing and analyzing of all this video, researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week awarded an almost $11 million contract to open source software vendor Kitware to help develop what DARPA calls its Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) program."

2 of 67 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Kitware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Something smells like bs, oh ya, it's your facts...

  2. Re:Kitware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    CMake is an abomination. I think I'd rather use Jörg Schilling's smake, or just compile the whole damn program with one gigantic gcc command, than fuck around with something like cmake.

    Couldn't they have written a sound daemon and try to shove that down everyone's throat instead?