Camera Counts People by Detecting Their Blood!



A new camera system is being tested to catch car pool (car-sharing) lane in Leeds, UK. Before, the police used labor-intensive and ordinary CCTV that could be fooled by dogs or inflatable dolls.

The new camera promises to be better: it counts people by detecting the blood and water content of the human skin!

The camera instantly illuminates the windscreen area with two different wavelengths of infrared light. Two specialised digital infrared pictures are taken of the windscreen.

The system is programmed to detect the blood and water levels in skin and then it uses certain algorithms to distinguish faces, as opposed to hands.

Within a fraction of a second, the vehicle occupancy count is determined using on-board electronics.

Link - via Jasonspage


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Posted on March 10, 2008 at 12:48 am by Alex
Category: Gadget

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6 comments to "Camera Counts People by Detecting Their Blood!"

  • Lasse
    March 10th, 2008 at 5:59 am

    Are the UK and the USA having some sort of surveillance contest i haven’t heard of?

  • alison
    March 10th, 2008 at 10:50 am

    wow, is it really that big of a deal?

  • Orjans Morjan
    March 10th, 2008 at 11:15 am

    Next up: New technology developed to stop people from taking 2 testers of chocolate instead of the allowed amount of 1 at the supermarket.

  • Ali S.
    March 10th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    I knew it! The vampires are using technology to figure out who to ambush and drink blood out of! ;)

  • L
    March 10th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    “it uses certain algorithms to distinguish faces, as opposed to hands”

    Because it’s easier to drive while missing a hand than while missing a head, right? What the heck does this have to do with anything?

  • priscilla
    March 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    Seriously… if this is where our tax dollars are going, I think we have a problem. How important is the whoooole carpooling thing? Not important at all.

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