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Smart Software Gives Surveillance Eyes a ‘Brain’

This article discusses software that makes video surveilliance cameras far more useful. From the article:

the software would only focus on things for which it was trained to look—like a gun in an airport, or the absence of a piece of equipment in a lab. Nelson has even created a prototype system that helps a person find things around the house, such as where reading glasses were left.

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For instance, CEO Paul Simpson is looking into using linked cameras covering a wide area to exchange information about certain objects, be they suspicious packages in an airport or a suspicious truck driving through a city under military control.

Each day machine vision gets a little more capable as new ideas emerge and high-speed computer hardware gets less and less expensive. In 10 to 20 years, computers will be able to "see" as well as human beings in many common tasks.