DHS released a paper detailing their ongoing experiment to determine how video footage can be used to predict crime. The video collection will first use trained actors within a specific area within the T. F. Green Airport of Providence in Rhode Island, but DHS admits that it “may incidentally collect Personally Identifiable Information from members of the traveling public and airport personnel who may be near them.”
The stated goal is to evaluate “whether the behavioral indicators used to screen for passengers with hostile intent can be reliably observed by BDOs (Behavior Detection Officers) via live video images as opposed to in person.”
The document states the video data acquisition will entail collecting and even storing “Personally Identifiable Information in the form of video images that include the face and body of trained actors and members of the traveling public.”
The experiment, the paper makes clear, is focused on video collection of trained actors at designated airport areas. However, it concedes that the agency “may incidentally collect Personally Identifiable Information from members of the traveling public and airport personnel who may be near them.”
Besides testing to see if DHS agents can detect “hostile intent” from video images as opposed to in-person observation, the videos will also used to see if computers can successfully be integrated for automated hostile intent detection and tracking. DHS is developing algorithms for what it calls “person and object detection and tracking.”
Source: wnd.com
Photo: Leonora Giovanazzi
You can read the 14-page paper title “Data Collection for the Centralized Hostile Intent Project” here.
