From The Washington Post:An agency under the director of national intelligence is seeking to develop an automated computer program that could process millions of feet of videotape, such as surveillance-camera data from countries other than the United States, according to a report released last week.
The goal is to identify "well established patterns of clearly suspicious behavior" of individuals outside the United States.
The research program, called Video Analysis and Content Extraction, has been underway since 2001 and is being undertaken by the Office of Incisive Analysis, part of the government's Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). It is one of several IARPA research projects aimed at developing systems that would permit subject-based review of massive video and other databases for counterterrorism and other intelligence purposes
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My Comment: A shape of things to come.