[Az-Geocaching] 'Smart' Cameras Are Watching You

[AZPAUL]

My bet is they would surely call down the "Wrath of the Kong". They 
would also eliminate quite a few cache sites.

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AZTech wrote:
> Wonder what this system would make of geocachers?  :D*
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> 'Smart' Cameras Are Watching You <goog_1233602787770>*
> / The Lantern (Ohio State University) (01/09/09) Gorder, Pam Frost/ 
> <http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2009/01/09/Campus/smart.Cameras.Are.Watching.You-3582772.shtml> 
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> 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.
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