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Samurai watching the crowd

16.06.2010

The streets of big cities, supermarkets, subway stations, railway stations and airports are hung with surveillance cameras. The problem is that vigilant operators must constantly look at their monitors.

The University of London has created a self-learning computer program "Samurai", which independently detects suspiciously behaving people in the crowd. "Samurai" raises the alarm if he finds someone's behavior strange.

For example, a woman suddenly appeared at the airport with a long stick in her hands, scurrying here and there. In response to an alarm signal, the operator looks at the screen, determines that it is a cleaner with a mop, and cancels the alarm. In the future, the program will not object to the appearance of cleaners.

In the supermarket, "Samurai" will be able to learn to distinguish between an indecisive, long-term buyer choosing a product from a thief, looking closely at where something can be stolen unnoticed.

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