US Spends $11M To Kick-Start Video Search 67
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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."
Are they really that Open? (Score:1, Interesting)
not enough money (Score:2, Interesting)
been here before (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes, 11mil is not gonna cut it.
Re:not enough money (Score:4, Interesting)
Unemployment is typically measured as a percentage, not as a raw number, since the relative scale of unemployment is of real importance, not just how many people. 500k people unemployed in the US is amazingly low, but that number would be crippling to Bulgaria.
But, assuming we're using the raw, non-standard measure, unemployment peaked at around 22.5% during the depression, a lowish estimate. 123m * 21.5% = 27.67m
We currently have 9.5% unemployment (July 2010). 281m * 9.5% = 26.695m
Considering official depression-era unemployment statistics don't exist, that's an estimate up there, so the number could be decently different. I also didn't do any research into census numbers; I'm assuming yours are accurate.