Earcams Listen to the Sound of Violence
From CoCo: Earcams Listen to the Sound of Violence:
Camera’s are getting ears: in the Dutch city Groningen surveillance camera’s are equipped with sound detection technology to detect sounds of violence. The company behind the technology, Sound Intelligence, says:
Our technology is inspired by the human auditory system and allows the detection and classification of all kinds of sound sources in arbitrary noisy acoustic environments.
A news item on Dutch television reported today that Groningen has been experimenting with the technology in the city’s center without the knowledge of the Dutch privacy watchdog, or the public for that matter.
Groningen’s mayor and those who designed the “earcams” point out that the sound surveillance merely picks up sounds of violence, points the camera towards the source of this sound and does not record anything.
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