Researchers Develop Surveillance System That Can Watch & Predict 106
hypnosec writes "Carnegie Mellon university researchers have developed a surveillance system that can not only recognize human activities but can also predict what might happen next. Scientists, through the Army-funded research dubbed Mind's Eye, have created intelligent software that recognizes human activities in video and can predict what might just happen next; sounding an alarm if it detects anomalous behavior. "
Next up.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Next up.... (Score:4, Insightful)
This system will be hilariously judging when someone with ataxia or just a plain limp sounds the system every damn time he walks past. Or some poor person with social anxiety that is constantly harrassed until he refuses to go out anymore.
Anomalous Behavior (Score:4, Insightful)
Here we go. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's vaporware (Score:5, Insightful)
No, they haven't "developed a surveillance system". The paper is two psychologists blithering about the potential architecture of one. It reminds me of the awful papers that came from the "expert systems" community in the 1980s. There's been some progress; it mentions Bayesian statistics. But it's fundamentally an approach based on parsing visual data into something that looks like predicate calculus and grinding on that. There's a long history of that not working.
It's an idea in the right direction, though. A key component of intelligence is prediction. Knowing what is likely to happen is a basic component of common sense, an area in which AI systems have historically been weak. With prediction comes the ability to ask "what if" questions, essential to deciding what to do next without doing something stupid.
There's been real progress in that area, but not from the expert systems people. Adobe Photoshop's content-aware fill [photoshopessentials.com] is an example of a successful system which has a form of "common sense" - it fills in plausible-looking areas to replace sections deleted from photos. Related technologies exist for videos, and are used for motion compression and 2D to fake 3D conversion. Systems which look at video and guess "what happens next" may be the next step.
fairly predicatable (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Next up.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Needs mass spook-spamming (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm thinking along the lines of the emacs "spook" function, amongst other things. You just need enough a large enough group of participants working together.
The system can be trained in weird ways. For instance, if enough people in enough places scratch their noses with their left hands, then break out in a mock fight, the system will learn to sound the alarm every time someone scratches their nose with their left hand.
Or, for something more socially useful - have people pull out a cellphone, talk for a few seconds, then pull out a mock gun and pretend to mug others. Then, the system will freak out every time some annoying jerk pulls out a cellphone in public. Along that same theme, train the system to send in the troops whenever someone adjusts their underwear in public, or picks their nose, or farts loudly...
Re:Profiling? (Score:1, Insightful)
I certainly agree with your assertion of equality, but I will correct you by saying, "more likely to be arrested and convicted of a crime."
Good Liberal. You get a cookie! [Pats head]
Black people are more likely to commit violent crime than whites, and not even by a small margin ... the difference is massive that it must take some serious cognitive dissonance to maintain views like yours.
Re:Profiling? (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh I see. Racism is over, doesn't exist anymore now that Obama was elected, right? Or you don't see racism yourself, whatever colour you are, so it must not exist. I misjudged you when you took a position against racial profiling, so I'm sorry.
So then your theory is that black people are genetically predisposed to crime? Or what? Perhaps you can explain why black people make up a majority of the prison population in the US? Enlighten us.
The world has some very poor societies that are relatively crime free. The correlation between crime and poverty is complicated, and is certainly not "obvious".
Fine. It's not obvious to you. But counter-examples of a trend do not negate a trend. That's why it's called a trend. If you don't accept that poverty and crime tend to correlate, then say so. We can put it on the shelf with other myths, like global warming, evolution and heliocentrism.
If your assertion that white dominance causes black crime was really true, then black crime would be higher in areas where they are a smaller minority, and diminish as they became more dominant.
If I meant majority I would have said majority. Do not conflate the two concepts. Dominance has to do with power, not straight numbers. If dominance in South Africa was determined by pure numbers, then we never would have seen apartheid.
I don't see how you can blame that on "white dominance".
I'm not saying white dominance causes crime. I'm saying the colour of who is dominant and who is subdominant is irrelevant; colour doesn't matter. Social injustice and inequality contributes to racial disparities in crime rates.
You dance around it and mince your words, but why don't you come out and say that blackness itself is a cause of crime. If you don't think that, then offer up a reasonable counter-explanation to explain the disparity in crime rates that you yourself have highlighted. The problem is, if you are a person who realizes that all people, regardless of skin colour, inherently have the same potential for good and evil, then the only way that prisons can be over represented by black people is because of institutionalized discrimination somewhere in society. Either it's the people or it's society: so which is it, according to you?
Ugh I need to have a shower to get all this racism off of me. You know what don't respond, or if you do I'm not going to read it. I've had enough troll for one day.
Re:Next up.... (Score:5, Insightful)
You're Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/youre-eight-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-police-officer-than-a-terrorist/print/ [cato-at-liberty.org]