Comments on: Software detects motion that the human eye can’t see

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:37:51 +0000

Well, we wouldn’t be the first species to go extinct by either of the following methods:
1) being out-competed
2) evolving into something radically different
3) altering our own environment too much for our own good
4) a natural or artificial disaster

By: DougW

DougW — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:37:49 +0000

…yeah, but can it make license plate numbers readable on blurry telephoto pictures? McGuyver could do that!!

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:53:45 +0000

I need this for my next poker tournament (texas hold ‘em).

Wearing the dark shades now is not just to protect your eyes from being seen, but like a pair of custom google glasses, these could give you poker tells.

By: eldras

eldras — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:14:43 +0000

I’m unclear where we are on the techie curve?
Is anyone monitoring trends in robotics? Having robots faster than you is one thing. Having them able to move while you are frozen between time frames is alarming.

I dont see how human extinction is not a major scenario as we advance???

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:59:13 +0000

I can see it being used in court, like in the series “lie to me”. The AI notices perspiration, a quickening of the pulse, subtle facial gestures, then all of a sudden, the robot jumps up, and with the speed of the rock,paper,scissors, robot, shouts out, YOU LIE!!!!!!

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:24:48 +0000

http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/vidmag.pdf

The results were generated using non-optimized MATLAB code on
a machine with a six-core processor and 32 GB RAM. The computation time per video was on the order of a few minutes. We used a separable binomial ﬁlter of size ﬁve to construct the video
pyramids. We also built a prototype application that allows users to
reveal subtle changes in real-time from live video feeds, essentially
serving as a microscope for temporal variations. It is implemented
in C++, is entirely CPU-based, and processes 640 480 videos at
45 frames per second on a standard laptop. It can be sped up further by utilizing GPUs.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:37:01 +0000

Very impressive, many potential applications! Can this software be made into an app on iPhone/iPad or other tablet/smart phone, or is it to processing intensive?