Thursday, April 7, 2011 New technology allows a camera to track
an eye, a particular face, or any other specified object. The
inventor, Zdenek Kalal, takes it through its paces, showing how
it can learn and adapt to a lot of tracking challenges. The
ominously named “Predator” has strong potential for autonomous
driving systems, military targeting, consumer photography,
wildlife filming, FX compositing, surveillance videography,
image stabilization, industrial robots, and human/computer
interface technology. The field of machine vision is still in
its infancy and largely limited so far to industrial
applications. We’ve grown accustomed to surveillance cameras
filming us. Next we’ll have to get used to seeing machines that
recognize us and keep an eye on us. Via Best of YouTube More at
Wired.com's Gadget Lab