August 18, 2007
PANDA: Predictive Analysis for Naval Deployment Activities
>from (DARPA's) The next wave of defense
On the high seas, the Predictive Analysis for Naval Deployment Activities (PANDA) project is refining its existing technology to track the location and patterns of more than 100,000 vessels and to detect when ships and boats deviate from normally expected behavior.
As such, the PANDA research is similar to other systems that use exception detection to pinpoint unusual behavior by people in airports or train stations. Developers of those counterterrorism systems have carved out the task of teaching systems what types of events to watch for among the countless mundane activities observed via video cameras in the transportation hubs.
Like the PANDA system, the exception-detection software for airports flags unusual events — such as an errant freighter in one case or an unattended satchel in the other — and brings them to the attention of human analysts.
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Posted by Stubbornson at August 18, 2007 03:11 PM