[guardian-dev] video tracking project

[Jason]

Nathan,

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:05:10AM -0400, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 03:18 PM, Jason wrote:
> > I saw the recent blog post[1] regarding video tracking for realtime
> > redaction.  It looks like some great progress has been made in the past
> > year.
> > 
> > I came across a different project (open source) that may be able to
> > assist this effort, it's called predator [2].  In short, there's no
> > learning phase, no GPU acceleration, minimal resources, and it learns
> > from it's mistakes (the key advance).  Perhaps it could be integrated
> > in?
>
> Thanks, Jason! We will look into the Predator project. I have cc'd our
> "ssc-dev" list, which is where we do most of the work on the
> SecureSmartCam with our partners at WITNESS.
> 
> https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ssc-dev

Didn't know about that one, I've subscribed.

Also, note that it will probably take a little bit of porting work.
Like a lot of graduate projects, it's partially written in Matlab [3].
:-(  But, the paper is published [4].  It also leverages opencv [5].

hth,

Jason.

> > [1] https://guardianproject.info/2011/09/10/progress-on-mobile-video-privacy-tools/
> > [2] http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html
[3] https://github.com/zk00006/OpenTLD
[4] Check "More Information" under [2]
[5] http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/