Gaze tracking system keeps an eye on CCTV operators as they keep an eye on you
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Apr 14th 2009 11:53AM
posted Apr 14th 2009 11:53AM
In his analysis of control systems, William S. Burroughs once noted that as they become larger, so do the opportunities for evasion increase. Sure, you can have CCTV cameras at (nearly) every intersection in your sleepy village, but someone has to watch all those things. What do you do when the sheer number of displays becomes too much for our poor Big Brother? Researchers at the Gebze Institute of Technology in Turkey have developed a gaze tracking system that trains cameras on the irises of the CCTV operator -- noting which video sequences he or she views on the shift, and producing a summary of video sequences they've overlooked. If that weren't enough, the system uses an algorithm that discards frames with no people or moving vehicles in them, leaving only a few key frames for each scene of interest. According to New Scientist, this all runs on a standard PC and processes and catalogs images in real time. Now, if only there were a system that let us watch Two And A Half Men and Becker at the same time -- that would be sweet.
Uh, yeah.... "Two" and a Half Men.
I don't know, I'm just an asshole when it comes to things like that.
I guess we know "who watches the watchmen" now.
Yea, but who watches the watchmen's watchers ?
The Watchmen, obviously.
Satan
I think you should try and shop "5" into all your pictures, given the occasion...
I think you mean Two and a Half Men? ;)
That CCTV camera is facing the opposite way to the eye, bad shop
Not if you imagine it displayed like so: http://rt80.net/portfolio/omnivisu/
The cameras should all work like this.
Yes, but if you threw out all the non interesting parts of those shows, you'd have nothing left.
Two and a Half Men. Basically, a less cool David Duchovny living with a closet homosexual and a fat kid on a wannabe hybrid of Will & Grace and Californication.
Plus, a laugh track that plays after, approximately, every 3rd word.
THE FUN NEVER ENDS.
I think that's true of...pretty much everything.
Alex AI Machine Man: l33t n1h1l1st
Enough with the government/big brother thing. Society, as much as it complains about having a BB, has pretty much created it by itself. What with cell phone cameras, digital cameras/video, twitter, etc, you can't do anything without someone seeing it. Welcome home, BB.
No worries, we can Always Trust the government............
I'm confused, why would you want to watch Becker?
They say that opinions can't be wrong, but I disagree. You are a ******* idiot if you don't like Becker.
Somehow, this doesn't surprise me at all from you bunch.
"watch Two And A Half Men and Becker at the same time"
I guess *I'm* just an asshole like that too.
System upon system upon system...
Some humans seem to create a technique just to make somthing, to be able to say "hey i did somthing so im usefull" completely oblivious to its flaws.
Humans tend to annoy me.
I tend to annoy myself.
Lets all take some time to throw away that ego.
And think about whats really necessary.
Nothing is really necessary...
its ok the zombie invasion will happen soon..
I bet George Orwell is spinning in his grave shouting 'I wrote a book about this!'
Please do not look away from…the nozzle.
That's why we use content analytics now. NICE Systems, ONSSI, Milestone, etc.
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