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We’re sure you’ve seen in the movies where upon locking in onto the face of a subject, they can be tracked through an entire city as various cameras placed around the city can somehow be on the lookout for that person and keep them in view. In real life it’s a little bit different, but that’s something researchers want to change.
Researchers at Cornell are working on a system that wants to get robots, autonomous devices, and AI to work together when it comes to identifying and tracking people or objects. For example if one camera picks up someone acting suspiciously, it can send that image to a central server that would then tell other cameras to be on the lookout for that particular person.
This would allow the system to track a person’s movements automatically, which would no doubt be a lot faster and more efficient compared to a regular person doing it. At the moment it seems that this system is still very much in the works and as it stands, the researchers have yet to build something that they can test, which means that it’s still a long way off from being a reality.
According to Kilian Weinberger, associate professor of computer science who is one of the researchers working on the system, “Once you have robots that cooperate you can do all sorts of things.”
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