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0 pointspavel_lishin8y ago0 comments

> Is there any other upside to this besides novelty and amusement?

* Automated injury detection. You've got a warehouse, you've got cameras, now you've got an instant alert when one of your workers appears to be injured but out of sight of other workers. You've got street cameras, now you've got automatic detection of someone having a heart attack and laying down on a sidewalk. (Dystopian application: "homeless person detected, deploying zap-drones") Hospitals and old folks' homes could use this, too.

* Lifeguard Assist programs - automatic detection of drowning-like behaviors. (Of course, over-reliance on this would be bad...)

* Children separated from parents might be easier to detect in places like malls, etc. (I'm going to stop listing obvious parenthetical dystopian applications)

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applecrazy8y ago

I see a huge possibility of replacing expensive mocap hardware and software using this tech, allowing for video games and VFX to become more accessible and use commodity hardware.

I’ve been eyeing things like the Kinect and iPhone X face tracking for this kind of task (for a fun side project I’m working on), but it would be great if I could track at least position and pose of multiple actors in a scene using just a standard webcam or camcorder.

rojobuffalo8y ago

Those are good examples. Basically surveying groups of people for body language that indicates a dangerous situation might be unfolding.

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