Gun Detecting Smartcam Startup
Author: Brian Rhodes, Published on Jul 27, 2015
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Comments (13)
John Bazyk
I agree with your recommendation. Although $500 for a gun safe is a little on the low side. We install alarm contacts on safes all the time and have them send push notifications to the users phone when the safe detects vibration or its opened. User can then check their cameras using video verification during the alarm. Much better solution.
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Stephen Schulz
If I roll my eyes any more I will be blind.
C'mon, is this a real product?
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Billy Guthrie
I think they would be better licensing the software out; I see more benefits using the analytics in many different other ways rather than in a single product. About the testing, sure, the analytics could use some work; the 40+ images that I used, 36 of them accurately detected the gun, even at a distance of 15 feet away.
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David Warren
Not sure what's worse, this idea or Tom Smykowski's Jump-to-Conclusions mat.
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Jason Spielfogel
Not a bad idea, but you're going to need a false-negative rate at least below 10% for this to be a viable commercial analytic.
No storeowner will buy this if 60% of the time it fails to detect a gun
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Chris Dearing
You are being more than fair in granting that the toy gun did not 'fool the system'. Based on the other results, I doubt it even considered the toy gun as a candidate weapon.
But I'm wondering why the thing is using still photos to detect firearms and not several frames of video? Object recognition is greatly aided by even just a few extra frames.
Also, maybe there is a glimmer of hope in the fact that it asks you if it guessed right or not, does that mean that it is learning and will do better in the future?
If it learns from its mistakes, and since criminals often return to the scene of the crime, you may have better luck with repeat offenders. ;)
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