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September 26, 2007
IBM Smart Camera Vendor for Chicago
From cbs2chicago.com:
Tomorrow (Thursday), Chicago and IBM will announce a partnership to bring IBM's smart camera technology to Chicago. The details are scarce now, but I will update this once I find out more. Here two examples cited in the story for how smart cameras may be used:
For example, the system could be programmed to alert the city's emergency center whenever a camera spots a vehicle matching the description of one being sought by authorities. "Say you've got a report of a white car involved in an incident," said Docknevich. "With analytics and the ability to tag objects and movement you could search for the white cars almost by typing in a query like that at a keyboard."
The system could be programmed to recognize license plates. It could alert emergency officials if the same car or truck circles the Sears Tower three times or if nobody picks up a backpack in Grant Park for, say, 30 seconds. Then the person monitoring the video camera could determine whether police should be sent to check it out, Docknevich said.
Posted by rshah at September 26, 2007 11:07 PM
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