Surveillance camera detects suspicious behaviour
February 28th, 2007 by Remon
American researchers developed a camera that can detect suspicious persons from the way they walk, swing their arms and other signals. Surveillance cameras are not only used more often, they are also “trained” to understand what’s happening at recorded images. This innovation could mean fewer people would be needed to watch what they record, and make it easier to install more in public places and private homes.
The new cameras can, for example, detect a person leaving a backpack behind and ring an alarm. The cameras are also trained to detect potential carthieves. If a person staps out of a car and does not walk into a nearby building but is looking inside other cars, the camera detects this as suspicious behaviour.
According to the industrial sector, the technology must be further developed before it can be used.
Here in Holland, we have cameras with sounddetection that can detect fights and gunshots but this new camera adds visual detection as well. It’s really getting more high-tech!
I just wonder how this will impact the tourism sector, imagine all the tourists looking all around them being flagged as suspicious 