It looks like they left out the part about the laser beam to the A$$ for bad behavior, and the donut that drops into your hand for good behavior. 1984 comes a little late, but it's coming. AZTech wrote: > Wonder what this system would make of geocachers? :D* > > > 'Smart' Cameras Are Watching You * > / The Lantern (Ohio State University) (01/09/09) Gorder, Pam Frost/ > > > > Ohio State University (OSU) researchers are developing a "smart" > surveillance system that will be able to determine if a person on the > street appears to be lost or is acting suspiciously. The goal is to > create a network of smart video cameras that will allow officers to > quickly and efficiently observe and monitor a wide area. "In my lab, > we've always tried to develop technologies that would improve > officers' situational awareness, and now we want to give that same > kind of awareness to computers," says OSU professor James W. Davis. > Davis says the goal is to analyze and model the behavior patterns of > people and vehicles moving through a scene. "We are trying to > automatically learn what typical activity patterns exist in the > monitored area, and then have the system look for atypical patterns > that may signal a person of interest," he says. The system will focus > on where a person goes and what they do. The first algorithm expands > the small field of view that traditional pan-tilt-zoom cameras provide > by taking a series of snapshots from every direction within a camera's > field of view and combining them into a 360-degree, high-resolution > panorama. The operator can click anywhere on the picture and the > camera will pan and tilt to that location for a live image. Another > program will map locations onto an aerial map of the scene and then > calculate where the view spaces of the security cameras overlap and > determine the geo-referenced coordinates of each ground pixel in the > panoramic image. A third program will use the aerial and panorama > views for tracking people, which could be used to instruct a camera to > follow specific people based on their behaviors. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com >