Ipsotek
From CNN.com:
A nice interview with Sergio Velastin of Ipsotek out of the UK. Velastin is a leading scholar on developing smart camera systems. Some quotes from the article:
Industry experts suggest that after 12 minutes of continuous video monitoring an operator will miss up to 45 percent of screen activity. That rises to up to 95 percent after 22 minutes.
“Humans will always be better than machines at spotting real behavior, but most security guards have an almost impossible task to watch so many screens all the time that they can’t be used practically,” Velastin told CNN.
“Most people do things in a fairly straight forward way and we’re able to gain statistical knowledge of what they do. From that it follows that you can raise an alarm if something is deemed ‘infrequent’, which usually means abnormal or suspicious,” he said. It sounds simple enough, but the task of creating a computer program that can filter out all the normal background goings on of a situation, be it on a train station platform or high street, has proved to be extremely complex.
In three to five years we hope to have a program that would identify from your walk whether or not you are carrying a gun,” he told CNN.
It all sounds very interesting to me; if what he says is true this
technology could be the answer to preventing the majority of present day
crime in future years.
Ok yeah we have cctv all over the place, but it never actually does any
good in preventing crime As the footage is only useful after its too
late and the mugging or whatever is over.
On top of what Dr. Velastin said I’ve also heard that Ipsotek work this
technology on an audio front as well, its all very well the camera’s
having visual intelligence but imagine if the cameras could respond to
things like gun shots and screams as well!!!