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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. Ever notice by SnarfQuest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ever notice that all the major inovations on the internet are porn related?

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  2. Why not outsource that job? by Arancaytar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm betting Wikileaks would do it for free!