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This Artificial Intelligence can Search for People by Height, Gender, and Clothing in Surveillance Videos

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This is scary!

A team of AI researchers from India developed a tool to search for people in surveillance footage by height, clothing color, and gender. It’s like a search engine that can find people in a video.

Basically, you can tell this AI some details about the person you’re looking for and it’ll scour whatever video you give it. For example, a request for “females wearing red shirts who are 153 cm tall” would, potentially, narrow down an entire video clip to just frames featuring people who meet that criteria.

You can read more in an article by Tristan Greene in The Next Web at: http://bit.ly/2ShLXGy.

Categories: Offline Privacy & Security

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