Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Can Aritificial Intelligence Be Used To Find Terrorists In A Surveillance Video?

U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees at work inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia. Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

C4ISRNet: Can this AI tech find a terrorist in a surveillance video?

WASHINGTON — A Connecticut-based video analytics and cloud computing firm is pitching the U.S. Army on artificial intelligence technology that can tag cars, people and weapons in drone footage, saving troops from drowning in data.

IronYun used an appearance at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting to market a capability that uses multiple algorithms simultaneously running for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — potentially saving thousands of man-hours of screen watching.

The idea of automatically searching through the reams of data brought in by military surveillance assets — often referred to as a “tsunami” by Pentagon experts — is increasingly realistic thanks to emerging AI capabilities.

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WNU Editor: If the Chinese can use these type of platforms to spot and track their own citizens (see link here), and I am sure that they can be used to spot and track terrorists, cars, what type of weapons are being carried, etc..

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

perhaps

Bob Huntley said...

Face recognition capabilities like the kinds we use in Casinos and the intelligence thereby applied can have military uses too as well as enabling search efforts for lost people in the wilds and perhaps even spotting snipers cleverly hidden in places like the bush etc.