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A new algorithm has been used to detect violence in drone-captured video footage:
A drone surveillance system capable of highlighting "violent individuals" in a crowd in real time has been built by [researchers].
The artificially intelligent technology uses a video camera on a hovering quadcopter to study the body movements of everyone in view. It then raises an alert when it identifies aggressive actions, such as punching, stabbing, shooting, kicking, and strangling, with an accuracy of about 85 per cent. It doesn't perform any facial recognition – it merely detects possible violence between folks. And its designers believe the system could be expanded to automatically spot people crossing borders illegally, detect kidnappings in public areas, and set off alarms when vandalism is observed.
The inventors are based at the University of Cambridge, in England, India's National Institute of Technology, and the Indian Institute of Science. They hope their autonomous spy drones will help cops crush crime and soldiers expose enemies hiding in groups of innocents.
Also at Science Magazine.
Eye in the Sky: Real-time Drone Surveillance System (DSS) for Violent Individuals Identification using ScatterNet Hybrid Deep Learning Network (arXiv:1806.00746)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @01:32PM (1 child)
In other news, in January 2020 India deployed over one million Real-Time Drone Surveillance System units to cover major Indian cities specifically targeting eve teasers and rapists. By March 2020 over 8 million individuals had been identified as sex offenders including a quarter of India's parliament. By June 2020 the system had been completely removed to the the unsettling number of police officers and teachers found to be rapists and sex offenders. In January 2021 a crowd funding campaign was started to collect the money to build a new system for the citizens of India by the citizens of India. By June 2021 the crowd funding had collected more than three times what was required to build ten of the original Real-Time Drone Surveillance Systems. By 2025 every major city had its own Real-Time Drone Surveillance System to identify and tag rapists, murders, and sex crimes in real time. By the 2035 all muslims had fled India, sex crime in public had reduced to less than 1 percent of 1 percent of what it was in the 1990s and Indian society was once again on the path to peace and prosperity.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Monday June 11 2018, @05:33PM
"By the 2035 all muslims had fled India"
But how are we going to get the Hindu nationalists to flee India?