3-D Surveillance Technology 93
scubacuda writes "According to this Technology Review article, a new surveillance technology called Video Flashlight melds 3-D models from background scenes. This "tweening process" allows security persononnel to fly around a subject such as a pedestrian, getting a detailed look without jumping between widely separated views."
That's just flat out cool.
Re:how does this work (Score:3, Informative)
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Canadian Cameras - editorial, news, privacy (Score:4, Informative)
Second, some words from the Canadian privacy commissioner [privcom.gc.ca], in which he comes down on video surveillance.
Third, the cameras are ruled illegal [oipcbc.org].
Canada has a privacy commissioner who is independent of the government and police and who has one overriding concern above all else: ensuring that the constitutional privacy rights of the Canadian public are respected.
In the past, he's also prevented the government from creating a super database that merges all information from all sources -- police, medical, political, taxation, etc -- into one system. So ruled because it would make it far too easy for the various branches of government to look at data they shouldn't have access to.
Thank goodness Canada's got the foresight and commonsense to have an independent commissioner!
Re:tweening (Score:2, Informative)
It involings interpolation of vector coordinates, like morphing is interpolcation of bitmaps.
Videoclip featuring the Video Flashlight (Score:3, Informative)