US Spends $11M To Kick-Start Video Search 67
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from the glued-to-the-screen dept.
from the glued-to-the-screen dept.
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."
Great, another privacy kill (Score:1, Insightful)
Once someone comes up witha way to automate the scanning of all that video, then our privacy will always be gone, as opposed to simply invaded after a crime is committed.
Re:not enough money (Score:3, Insightful)
It's an insult for the military to be using tax dollars to work on developing Computer Vision technology 20 years ahead of it's time when we're up against record unemployment.
"It's an insult for DARPA to create jobs at Kitware during 'record unemployment' that isn't actually record unemployment, just high unemployment."
-AC