Mike Temporale
12-14-2004, 11:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/3411.html' target='_blank'>http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/3411.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"German software vendor Derdack has been awarded Finalist in the German Innovation Award 2004 for its solution for mobile art crime investigation ...Derdack's unique solution combines latest mobile technology with high-profile image processing research of the German Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology. It consists of a software program running on Pocket PCs or Smartphone with a built-in camera. This software picks up pictures taken by the camera and sends them to an image processing server which is connected an art databases. The image analysis system now compares the received information, i.e. the photograph, with images stored in the database and returns the result to the mobile device almost in real time."</i><br /><br />Very cool. 8) Of course, it's also a little scary when you consider that this doesn't have to be used for art work. What if the police or event security start using this to research people in a crowd. So much for our privacy. :?