You are being watched...in 3D

I just got back from the International Security Show, ISCWest. I’ll be writing up some more thoughts on that in a bit, but in the meantime, I thought I’d tide you over with you a few cool videos I found from one of the exhibitors there.

Feeling Software got its start in 2005 building 3D technologies for video games and the entertainment industry. So, it’s no surprise that their offerings to the world of high-tech surveillance look a lot like a 3D shooter.





The demos are still a little rough around the edges, but in them, I think, one can see the beginnings of a new interface paradigm for surveillance monitoring that succeeds in providing both detail and context in one interface. It's huge potential advance over the brain-numbing eyeball-burning video walls that sit at the center of modern security rooms today.

And in addition to offering better situational awareness, the interface abstraction might be used to provide other features from privacy to integration, as well. 3D tracked models might be highlighted, tagged, or even obscured or removed from monitoring model based on security policies, privacy law, or real-time information from other systems.

One more note: For those interested in facial recognition, tracking, and modeling, you should also check out Feeling Software’s Face Flow demo. Though not quite up to the standard of the Benjamin Button tech I commented on the other week, it's pretty cool none-the-less.