[privacy] Move Over, Cisco: IBM Gets Into The Video Surveillance Game

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Yahoo! News (AP).

[snip]

IBM Corp. hopes to capitalize on the enormous growth in video
surveillance by selling technology from its research labs that performs
real-time analysis on footage captured by security cameras in stores
and sensitive locales.

Several companies already offer systems that can alert security guards
if something unusual appears to be going on — such as someone entering
an off-limits room or a jewelry store employee leaving a key in a
display case.

But IBM contends that it is the first to add advanced search functions
that make use of computers' improving ability to recognize video
content. For example, the IBM system would let a user search for all
instances of a green car passing by a store on a certain day.

The so-called S3 — Smart Surveillance System — also can incorporate
data gathered from audio or chemical sensors. And IBM said S3 includes
important privacy enhancements, such as the ability to automatically
obscure faces of customers or passers-by.

[snip]

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_hi_te/ibm_video_surveillance

S3:
http://www.research.ibm.com/peoplevision/

Cisco background in this space:
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/03/cisco-to-acquire-video-surveillance.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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