Doom-Like Video Surveillance For Ports In Development

oranghutan writes "A research and development group down under is working to develop an advanced video surveillance system for ports around the world that uses video superimposed onto a 3D map. With 16-megapixel high-definition cameras on a distributed (cabled) network and a proprietary system written in a variety of languages (C++, Python, SQL, etc.), the group from NICTA is aiming to allow security teams at the Port of Brisbane — which is 110km long — to monitor shipping movements, cargo and people. By scrolling along a 3D map, the security teams can click on a location and then get a real-time video feed superimposed onto the map. Authorities from around the world with the right permissions can then access the same system. The main difference from regular surveillance systems is the ability to switch views without having to know camera numbers/locations and the one screen view."

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[Mushdot]

Do you normally ask for extra retard on your Pizza or is today special?

If wishes were whores

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Then Buggers would ride...

make it more doom-like

[Dayofswords]

Hide a chainsaw in the port just for the doom feel.

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[polar red]

optional railguns on the camera's ?

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[fuo]

no. there were no railguns in Doom. plasma guns maybe tho

Re:make it more doom-like

[RogueyWon]

At least we'd have an fps where the designers can feel free to stick crates all over the levels and not be criticised for lazy design choices.

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[roguetrick]

I agree, instead of crates we should put chest high walls.

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[sznupi]

And falling into water does have a high chance of killing you.

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[cmiller173]

"Authorities from around the world with the right permissions can then access the same system."

Oh, I can see where this is going...

Where this is going is they can outsource monitoring to another country with lower cost labor.

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[couchslug]

"Where this is going is they can outsource monitoring to another country with lower cost labor."

Iran or North Korea?

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[Hatta]

Gotta wonder if there's head bob.

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[whitehatnetizen]

110km is correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_brisbane [wikipedia.org]

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[Genocaust]

Perhaps I'm daft, but where in that Wikipedia article does it state 110km (or any length, for that matter)?

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[stjobe]

Port of Brisbane is the shipping port of Brisbane, on the east coast of Australia. It is located in the lower reaches of the Brisbane River on reclaimed land that was once called Fisherman's Island at the mouth of the river. It currently is the third busiest port in Australia and the nation's fastest growing container port. It includes the main shipping channel across the Moreton Bay which extends 90 km north to Mooloolaba and is dredged to maintain a depth fourteen metres at the lowest tide.

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[Rhaban]

I understand it's the Moreton Bay that extends 90km north to Mooloolaba, not the port itself.

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[stjobe]

The port’s limits extend geographically from Caloundra to the southern tip of Moreton Island, including the 90km shipping channel, which is dredged to a minimum of 15m LAT (Lowest Astronomical Tide). Our responsibility extends 16km up the Brisbane River to Breakfast Creek.

source: Port of Brisbane [portbris.com.au]

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[Rhaban]

Thanks, that's what should have been linked in the GGGGP.

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[Spikeles]

You mean like this [youtube.com]?

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[LakeSolon]

You mean like this [youtube.com]?

Did anyone else catch the Metal Gear sound track, and the 'alert' sound when a sensor was triggered?

More pixel bytes in the cameras than the game!

[BrightSpark]

DOOM shipped on diskette (~2.8Mb) but DOOM needed about 4.8mb of hard drive space, which is a fraction of the number of pixels on the cameras in the article. In fact the image size per frame will be bigger than the entire game. See this site for all your DOOM info needs. http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/doomfaq/sect1.html [gamers.org]

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[cpscotti]

Does this suggests that in some 16 more years we'll have ~25gb pictures? Scary!

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[kalirion]

Yup, of course they'll be 4D.

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[Minwee]

With the addition of some Artificial Intelligence and some minigun emplacements, this should make our shores 100% safe.

And there will also be cake.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Let me explain it to you: imagine a car driving at 80 km/h, leaving Brisbane at 2 o'clock. Some bananas are running around in circles while Frank is counting to blue. See? Delicious!

So those "Nikita" impossible zoom...

[MindPrison]

...magnifications that hollywood so much enjoy showing in their movies, can finally become true ;)

You know...in the movies where they zoom in a perfectly clear image out of 3 pixels ;)

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[Nikker]

3 pixels should be enough for anyone.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like to see something like that on a TV show:

1. Some idiot asks to "zoom in" the face of someone in a picture
2. The tech guy zooms in. The computer displays a blurry mess of pixels.
3. The idiot says "dude I asked you to zoom in so we could see who it was".
4. Tech guy replies: this kind of bullshit only happens in Hollywood.

The TV Show could be Better Off Ted, Chuck, Family Guy... I don't care. As long as the joke is made.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Cordelia: Look! Right there, zoom in on that.
Xander: It's a videotape.
Cordelia: So? They do it on television all the time.
Xander: Not with a regular VCR they don't.
-- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 'The Prom'

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[GuruBuckaroo]

They did it [youtube.com]. Alas, it was Squidbillies on Adult Swim, so pretty much nobody ever saw it.

Unfortunately, apparently YouTube is experiencing the Slashdot effect from that $300 sci-fi movie story.

BORING

[cffrost]

I predict that NICTA's upcoming release of Port Cop: Brisbane is poised to become the most boring MORPG in history.

pics...

[f0rk]

... or it didn't happen !

Simpsons did it.

[chaynlynk]

This is nothing really new or novel. I remember seeing something like this being covered on tv like 5 years ago. In fact here are some examples.

http://vgtc.org/wpmu/3dui09/2009/03/17/egocentric-navigation-for-video-surveillance-in-3d-virtual-environments/ [vgtc.org]
http://www.feelingsoftware.com/ [feelingsoftware.com]

Chicago

[ruiner13]

I heard rumors that Chicago actually has software [npr.org] that ties all of the city's thousands of cameras (some privately owned) into one big grid that can be accessed much the same way. I don't know if they have taken it so far to 3-D model everything or not, but this sort of thing I'd expect to see almost everywhere eventually. Monitoring these giant networks of cameras is hard, and monitoring them all simultaneously is impossible. However, if you can have "virtual cops", per se, that can respond to calls inst

This game won't sell

[BOFslime]

I'm holding out for the full review, but I can't see this game going very far. They have a lot to live up to if they're going to compare it to Doom!

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[HTH NE1]

Let the bad guys access that feed. Then it will be like an upgraded Hacker II [wikipedia.org].

I once imagined air traffic controllers need WOW

[way2trivial]

Imagine a mashup between World of Warcraft and google earth

Air traffic controllers could 'fly' as needed around their zone, and flights would be realtime tracked across the airscape.. coming off the nose of each plane is a solid black rod the length of the controllers area of responsibility, it would stick straight out in the crafts flight path, and also in front of each plane is a translucent cone of variable length that shows the range of reasonable alternate flight paths without severe manuveouring.

the

Cue Doom Theme!

[Kc_spot]

daDA-daDA-daDA-daDAAAA This is actually pretty cool... image a robbery taking place... the police can get a 3d model of where everyone was standing when it went down. even more so they could enter new info from the crime scene and create a CSI-ish simulation of the events.

Doom

[Yaos]

Doom is a well known 3D game where you have to watch ships?