Lip Reading Surveillance Cameras To Stop Terror

Cameras may be used to read your lips for anti-terrorist reasons.

Modern CCTV camera: Who is watching you and your kids?

lip reading is invasion of privacy: conversing in public will require a screen

CCTV to read your private conversations?

conversing with a friend privately? so you thought;

Electronic Design is reporting that the Home Office is interested in a project being pursued by a senior lecturer in computer vision at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England:

' Computer-based lip-reading technology would help video surveillance systems spot people planning a crime or terror attack by literally watching suspects’ lips for clues. Once it finds someone speaking certain key words or sentences, the system would automatically send an alert message to a central console, mobile phone, or other communications device. Police or security agents could then be dispatched to the scene to question the individual. '

see the article here:

http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2007/270407lip_reading.htm

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Like cons in porridge

01.05.2007 14:24

we can all talk out the side of our mouths.

Fletch

Spot the difference!

02.05.2007 00:18

"Now the British government is considering taking it literally by adding lip reading technology to some of the four million or so surveillance cameras in order identify terrorists and criminals by watching what everyone says."

http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2007/270407lip_reading.htm

"Current automated lip-reading systems, which require good lighting and static heads, are limited and relatively inaccurate. “We can lip-read between 10 and 30 utterances at the moment, with an accuracy of around 50%,” Harvey says. “Given the difficulty of lip-reading, that is regarded as pretty good. But obviously there is a huge way to go before we can handle natural speech.”

http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=15372

Scoop

Fancy that!

02.05.2007 10:43

New powers vital to avert surveillance society, says watchdog
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Tuesday May 1, 2007
The Guardian

"The information commissioner is to propose sweeping new privacy powers today to halt the slide towards a surveillance society. Richard Thomas will tell a Commons home affairs select committee inquiry that the accelerating pace of technological change means pre-emptive action is needed to minimise the intrusion of the state and companies into the individual lives of citizens."

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2069291,00.html