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                Date: 2001-02-23
                 
                 
                Sensoren, Camouflage und das MIT
                
                 
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      Bald kömmt die Zeit wieder herauf, in der Wundermittel  
gegen den bösen Blick der Kameras hoch im Kurs stehen  
werden, Tarnkappen und Camouflage-Monturen gegen des  
verräterische Wärmeprofil eines jeden Individuums. 
 
Die schöne neue Welt des MIT bevölkern Visionen des  
HNicholas Negroponte, die bei genauerem Hinsehen üble  
Nachtalben sind. 
 
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relayed by Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com> via "g'o'tz  
ohnesorge"  plus comment: Bwuoerg! :( 
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The Forest of Sensors project is the MIT AI Lab's video  
surveillance and monitoring (VSAM) testbed. While there are  
many VSAM projects (see Related Links), our project is set  
apart by its three primary goals- persistence, full coverage,  
and automated configuration and processing. 
 
Persistence- Our system can run outdoors 24 hours a day 7,  
days a week collecting data the entire time with minimal  
interruptions. Our system has been running since September  
1997 has processed on the order of one billion frames. full  
coverage- Many existing systems offer high-resolution, partial  
coverage of an area. Rather than using pan/tilt/zoom  
cameras to maximize the resolution on a particular object,  
our system uses many static cameras which offer full  
coverage all the time. With the advent of cheap hardware  
(cameras, signal processing, communications) we favor  
using many, small, cheap autonomous vision modules, rather  
than a few, expensive pan-tilt cameras only cover a portion of  
the scene at one time. 
 
Automated configuration and processing- The most  
interesting aspect of our work is that it is almost completely  
automated. Once the cameras are placed and tracking  
begins, all the work performed by the system is done with  
minimal human intervention. This includes maintaining a  
tracking database, relative calibration of the cameras, and  
object and activity classification. 
 
Visual Surveillance and Monitoring Project  
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/vsam/
                   
 
 
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