U.S. Military Technology Projects Target Automated Imagery Analysis

摘要

With U.S. analysts buried un der surveillance imagery and fac ing the mind-numbing tedium of watching hour after hour of footage, some U.S. technologists are working on software tools that would assign the dreary but vital task to computers.Two tools in development by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Kitware, a 65-per-son company based in Clifton Park, N.Y., highlight the obstacles and potential benefits of automat ically scanning imagery for suspi cious behavior.