digital optics & surveillance

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ISEA 09 Belfast

alex haw - atmos

26 08 . 09

In June America’s Departments of Justice and Homeland Security

and a grouping of American police chiefs released the “Suspicious

Activity Report—Support and Implementation Project”.

Inspired in part by the approach of the Los Angeles Police

Department, it urges police to question people who, among other

things, use binoculars, count footsteps, take notes, draw diagrams,

change appearance, speak with security staff, and photograph

objects “with no apparent aesthetic value.”

P300 "Brain Fingerprinting": A Very Freaky Future Indeed http://jeffjonas.typepad.com/jeff_jonas/2007/01/p300_brain_fing.html

We may not be far away from the thoughtcrime described in 1984.

“Apparently, your brain creates a very specific electrical brain

response, known as P300, when one is presented with information

that is already contained in one’s mind.

If you recognize the information (i.e., it is familiar to you), you will

have a P300 response. There is no way to avoid this; it is a

biological/electrical stimulus response event. Sort of like a lie

detector, only (reportedly) always accurate.

P300 is already being used in court as admissible evidence by both

defense and prosecuting attorneys.” On March 5, 2001

Pottawattamie County, Iowa District Court Judge Tim O'Grady ruled

that Brain Fingerprinting® testing is admissible in court.

Hsinchun Chen, head of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the

University of Arizona says “sentiment analysis”, which he performs

for American and international intelligence agencies, is an emerging

and booming field.

The goal is to identify changes in the behaviour and language of

internet users that could indicate that angry young men are becoming

potential suicide-bombers.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a lobby, says the list

maintained by the Terrorist Screening Centre at the FBI now has

more than 900,000 names, with 20,000 more every month.

Abdul Bakier, a former official in Jordan’s General Intelligence

Department, says that tips to foil data-mining systems are discussed

at length on some extremist online forums. Tricks such as calling

phone-sex hotlines can help make a profile less suspicious.

“Meat tagged in readiness for crime surge” 20 October 08

Alan Hyder

“Retailers preparing for a rapid rise in crime due to the credit crunch

are placing electronic tags on expensive cuts of meat.”

COTS Dust

GOALS:

• Create a network of sensors

• Explore system design issues

• Provide a platform to test Dust

components

• Use off the shelf components

COTS Dust - RF Motes – Atmel Microprocessor

– RF Monolithics transceiver

• 916MHz, ~20m range, 4800 bps

– 1 week fully active, 2 yr @1%

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E W 2 Axis Magnetic

Sensor

2 Axis Accelerometer

Light Intensity

Sensor

Humidity Sensor

Pressure Sensor

Temperature Sensor

2D beam scanning

laser

lens

CMOS ASIC

Steering Mirror

AR coated dome

CamScape

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your computer

CCLTV

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Euston & Marylebone Road

SeeCTV v.1

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British Film Institute , South Bank

SeeCTV v.2

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Royal Festival Hall, South Bank

SeeCTV v.4

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The Express Dairy, Kings Cross

SpaceBook : domestic optical networking

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The Milan Triennale

LightHive

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the Architectural Association / the Light Forum

Incel

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DAM & Deutsche Borse , Frankfurt

Sunlands

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Middle Dock , Canary Wharf

Weather Projection

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Observation Hill, Sydney

Hurry Up Please IT’S TIME

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Big Chill House / Roxy Bar & Screen

LightFall

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the Cutty Sark DLR

Lumiskin

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The Waterfront Hall, ISEA09 Belfast