Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a system for letting a computer analyze what's going on in video footage. The system, which they refer to in a recent paper as "automatic action recognition in video surveillance," essentially breaks a video into chunks, then matches each piece to a verb like "pick up" or "bury." A concept-mapping system helps work through similar ideas ("dig" and "bury," for example.) The result is a program that can watch surveillance footage and identify the actions that are taking place. Ultimately, it could alert human viewers if it sees something suspicious — like, if the example above is representative, a person dragging a body across a parking lot.
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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/28/3567048/carnegie-mellon-video-surveillance-action-recognition
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