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Often, however, no one is actually watching the cameras. Officials in Dillingham admit this on the town's Web site, and Mr. Velasquez acknowledges it, too. ''We know we are going to have monitoring challenges,'' he said.
Chicago is beginning a trial project using software that will sift through thousands of hours of video, trying to recognize unusual behavior, like leaving behind a suitcase.
Looks like a new opportunity to use Internet bandwidth and outsource. Steve
On 25 Apr 2006 13:51:10 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:43:49 -0400
From: Elaine Newton <enewton@cmu.edu> Date: April 24, 2006 6:16:45 PM EDT
The New York Times
April 23, 2006 Sunday Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section 4; Column 1; Week in Review Desk; IDEAS & TRENDS; Pg. 14
Many of these newer cameras can pan, tilt and zoom, and are networked through the Internet, so video images can be viewed and stored centrally. They are often purchased with homeland security funds, meant for use against terrorism as well as street crime.
This reminds me of a time a buddy and I were presenting to a group at a rather large company that had offices scattered about the country. The presentation was going to be video conferenced across multiple offices, and one of the people was teaching us how to control the various cameras at the remote offices. During this tutorial, a rather attractive member of the opposite sex was setting up one of the remote offices, so the person conducting the demonstration decided zoom would be a good thing for us to learn at that moment and zoomed in on certain parts of this remote person's anatomy. I could only imagine the amount of money that rather large company had spent on "appropriate conduct training" for that person, and it all went right out the window in an instant. Kinda makes you think about the ways in which these cameras will be abused by those intended to use them. -Andrew
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