US Spends $11M To Kick-Start Video Search 67
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coondoggie writes "The US military is inundated with video from airborne unmanned aircraft, remote monitoring systems and security outposts. In an effort to speed up the processing and analyzing of all this video, researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week awarded an almost $11 million contract to open source software vendor Kitware to help develop what DARPA calls its Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) program."
lulz, acronyms (Score:3, Funny)
ATGTGAATTPRTSOIC*
*Are they going to give an acronym to the people running the software once it's complete?
I have seen those videos... (Score:1, Funny)
DarpaVid Search: "Brown People" (showing 10 out of approx. 1,342,400,000 video results)
DarpaVid Search: "Brown People +terrorist" (showing 10 out of approx. 2,670,000 video results)
DarpaVid Search: "Brown People +terrorist +diabetic +tall" (showing 10 out of approx. 4,000 video results)
DarpaVid Search: "Brown People +terrorist +diabetic +tall +scratchybeard +inexplicablycleanclothes" (showing 1 out of 1 video result)
AHA! WE GOT HIM!
Re:lulz, acronyms (Score:5, Funny)