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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."

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  1. Are they really that Open? by stanlyb · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Kitware, beware, there is a saying, do not accept even the gifts from Danains.......

  2. not enough money by M.+Kristopeit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    for the level of processing required, $11M will barely cover the hardware infrastructure

    1. Re:not enough money by blackraven14250 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Unemployment is typically measured as a percentage, not as a raw number, since the relative scale of unemployment is of real importance, not just how many people. 500k people unemployed in the US is amazingly low, but that number would be crippling to Bulgaria.

      But, assuming we're using the raw, non-standard measure, unemployment peaked at around 22.5% during the depression, a lowish estimate. 123m * 21.5% = 27.67m

      We currently have 9.5% unemployment (July 2010). 281m * 9.5% = 26.695m

      Considering official depression-era unemployment statistics don't exist, that's an estimate up there, so the number could be decently different. I also didn't do any research into census numbers; I'm assuming yours are accurate.

  3. been here before by recharged95 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Remember when we tried searching video aka Oracle VIR? I sure do (part of a firm that used VIR as a core for a NL video search engine).
    Yes, 11mil is not gonna cut it.