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August 23, 2006

GE Smart Camera Research

From Capital New 9:
A story on research at GE on smart camera technology. Nothing new, but another company focused on this market.

The article quotes Peter Tu:

"We've got thousand and thousands of cameras already up, you've got million and millions of pixels collected every second, if you really want to be proactive about stopping events that you might not even anticipate, video is essentially on of the key elements."

And so in a world that's battling terrorism, GE's video surveillance projects are crucial. Research Scientist Peter Tu and his team have been working on software that allows them to see several camera angles as one bird's eye view, programs that enhance face recognition. They can even track people in crowds.

Tu said, "If one is acting erratic or suspiciously then we can track this person, figure out who he is with, who he or she has been meeting with, what objects they're working with, which kinds of threatening behaviors, and possibly look them up against a database against know perps and terrorists." . . Tu said, "We can understand the motion of people, hopefully we can get to the point where we can get an articulated model of individuals and based on those motions and where people are looking, all of these things together we can combine that with the knowledge of what constitutes a dangerous act versus a safe one."

Posted by rshah at August 23, 2006 10:08 PM

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