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: 5, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Sunday June 10 2018, @06:13PM (6 children)
The accuracy of 85% clearly is wrong. What is classified as non-violent today is certainly not classified as non-violent tomorrow. Therefore, the accuracy is 100% for all future violent acts. Just be prepared to defend yourself against the drone evidence. You cannot deny your guilty attitude. You are already classified as a "violent individual" by being filmed and analyzed. Tomorrow's definition will make certain that you are guilty as charged. The lesson you should learn here is not to gather in groups. You must obey and not think. Start censoring yourself now. That is the only way. Report any deviant behavior. We have always been at war with east-asia.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 10 2018, @06:29PM (4 children)
I can totally see this being deployed at sports events, when you and your buddy are both wearing the jerseys of the same team and you grab him in a headlock and give him a light knuckle-rub on his forehead when your team scores the game-winning goal, both of you laughing, only to have the jackbooted government thugs alerted and deployed to beat you like Rodney King.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @06:33PM (3 children)
We can't all get along, you gay Nazi kike lover.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 10 2018, @06:37PM (2 children)
Yes, you are correct. But what happens when you implement this in Eurpoe during football (soccer) events? Everybody would now be classified as "violent" and the database would crawl to a halt from all the writes and other information-overload.
(Score: 3, Informative) by archfeld on Sunday June 10 2018, @07:26PM
This system would never survive an Oakland Raiders NFL game either. A riot when they win, a riot when the lose, and a brawl all the way through the game either way.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Sunday June 10 2018, @11:52PM
So, self solving problem then?
It would also be easy to troll,
Three guys in the crowd could saturate every drone's attention with stage punches, and nerf bats, and rubber knifes, and draw in all the police, while the real criminals were unloading TVs and calmly walking them down the street.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @11:54PM
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @06:21PM (1 child)
Mookie is going to prison for throwing a trash can. That's violence. The all-seeing AI drone says Mookie is guilty.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @12:08PM
This font tells we need a movie about future crime boss Al Drone.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by pdfernhout on Sunday June 10 2018, @06:42PM (2 children)
http://www.larryniven.net/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml [larryniven.net]
"Someone at police headquarters had expected that. Twice the usual number of copseyes floated overhead, waiting. Gold dots against blue, basketball-sized, twelve feet up. Each a television eye and a sonic stunner, each a hookup to police headquarters, they were there to enforce the law of the Park... Within King's Free Park was an orderly approximation of anarchy. People were searched at the entrances. There were no weapons inside. The copseyes, floating overhead and out of reach were the next best thing to no law at all.
There was only one law to enforce. All acts of attempted violence carried the same penalty for attacker and victim. Let anyone raise his hand against his neighbor, and one of the golden basketballs would stun them both.
They would wake separately, with copseyes watching. It was usually enough. No violence."
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @07:09PM
Typical sci-fi faggot story. Phasers on stun. See that Star Trek when the Enterprise stunned an entire city block from orbit. Piece of the action in fantasyland. Here in the real world the police shoot to kill until you stop resisting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @01:16PM
What a good way to get even or revenge or just piss off someone you hate
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Sunday June 10 2018, @07:23PM
So much for running kata and practicing on the mats out behind the dojo. The eyes in the sky would report that as a riot in progress.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Sunday June 10 2018, @07:37PM (5 children)
If citizens in general have use of this technology, they'll have a much easier time identifying the police agents provocateur in crowd the cops want to beat up, whose job is to create a violent disturbance so that the cops have an excuse to attack the crowd. Among activist types, it's a well-understood rule that the guy who's trying to turn a peaceful protest into a riot is 9 times out of 10 an undercover cop.
So, of course, it will be super-secret stuff that only cops have access to.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @08:43PM
To their legal street address and flying them overhead looking for agent provocateurs results in a warrant to ransack their house, which then finds some criminally infringing materials there, as well as accidentally resulting in the deletion of all recorded feeds from their drones.
Mark my words, it is on the way.
(Score: 2, Touché) by frojack on Sunday June 10 2018, @11:57PM (3 children)
I'm guessing all the citations you'll ever post about this "well-understood rule" are right there between the quotation marks.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @02:58AM
Some evidence here, but not much data. There are some links...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur#United_States [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 11 2018, @08:39AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday June 11 2018, @12:27PM
As in, you don't believe that that's a police tactic in use right now?
Here's some undercover cops in Canada getting caught [thestar.com].
Here's the Brits doing the same thing [theguardian.com].
Here's an in-depth look at the US efforts to use this tactic [thenation.com]. Here's an admission of it at Occupy Austin [youtube.com].
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(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?