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Going a little off topic now... I'm surprised nobody has combined 3D X-Ray Scanning with computer vision technology. At the moment we're depending on the human
by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
Going a little off topic now...
I'm surprised nobody has combined 3D X-Ray Scanning with computer vision technology. At the moment we're depending on the human eye flicking between three dimensions and spotting bad things, with very basic shape detection to "hint" at objects of interest. This system kind of works, but has human error weaknesses.
If you fed 3D X-Rayed objects into a computer vision engine, eventually you'd have a big enough catalogue so the computer could list off every object inside and flag things which may be odd or problematic, for example a book with seemingly no internal dimensions.
Now this is an imperfect system, for example when a new form factor of laptop started getting sold it might flag it as unusual, but isn't that somewhat working as intended? Then they can scan it, clear it, and send back the scan as a reference image.
Eventually it could speed up and improve the reliability of bag checks.
- exabrial 9y agoThat already exists, but are commonly used on baggage, not at checkpoints. I can't remember what airport I was at, but they were scanning bags in the terminal area before loading them on a belt.I saw a TSA employee stick a bag through the machine, and the machine found a bottle of wine wrapped and taped in bubblewrap and outlined the wine bottle with a red outline. The guy they set the bag off to the side (presumably for 'enhanced interrogation'). Envision, or invision was the brand name of the scanner?
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- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThey could also profile the contents, there's got to be a normal distribution of items in baggage for particular types of journeys?