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May 21, 2006
Public Eye on Airport Cameras
From Public Eye
Peter has a nice post on the role of smart cameras at airports. It was a reaction to the recent Slashdot post on smart cameras at Helsinki airport, also discussed here. He argues the following:
- Lots of smart camera algorithms are not useful, such as package detection because of the false positive problem
- He suggests the most useful algorithms are for detecting people/vehicles entering restricted areas and flow control
- This biggest value for smart cameras is not real time alerts, but managing camera footage (think 1000 cameras each storing 120 days of video) to allow operators easy access to relevant archival footage
While I am personally interested in the real time alerts feature for cameras, I think Peter has some excellent points and we can all benefit from his knowledge and experience.
Posted by rshah at May 21, 2006 09:36 PM
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