MAS 964 (H):
Special Topics in Media Technology:
Camera Culture
Spring
2008
Class 3: What are
the beneficial opportunities in pervasive recording of public spaces?
Pervasive public recording=GoogleEarthLive/Subscription
cameras/surveillance
(We will avoid discussion on bigbrother/privacy for now because the
debate gets religious and monotonic. We will instead focus on emerging
technologies and applications.)
Technology:
See thru fog, time-lapse processing, day-nite/season/multi-modal
fusion, how to consume these images, how to merge with static/dynamic
content, merge with static/dynamic cameras, support object recognition,
refine GPS coords, crowdsourcing, metadata (video frame) tagging
Platform
Installed cameras on poles/blimps/life-cams
Society and Applications
Commerce (real-estate, restaurant reviews, remote maintenance),
Environment (earthquake-early few-seconds-warning like opportunities by
electronically transmitting info about the progressing front), Politics
(protests), Social distrurabance (verification)
Contributors so
far:
(scroll to
individual responses)