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Darpa Offers up to $50,000 Prize for Shredder Challenge
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- mef 15y agoPrevious posting and discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3164466 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3164466
- vitrifying 15y agoThe prize is measly but a fascinating problem, no? My initial idea is to dump all the material into a large room-sized box. Fans would then blow the clippings into the air (like lottery balls or something) and stop to allow it to settle. Next a high res camera scans the jumbled scene closely from above (using an X-Y plotter). Upload the images onto a server. Repeat many times. Then process the data. First, images of individual clippings are extracted from the raw images. Finally, images of the original paper documents are assembled by statistical algorithms similar to those used by Craig Venter to map and sequence the human genome.
- maeon3 15y agoThat sounds like there would be a high probability of one shard obscuring another shard, or a shard not settling in a diagonal position.
- Herring 15y agoThis will just encourage people to burn instead of shredding.
- Joakal 15y agoYou can restore burnt paper. eg: http://creativegame.blogspot.com/2008/05/burned-documents.html http://creativegame.blogspot.com/2008/05/burned-documents.ht...
- Udo 15y agoOf course it's for US residents only - and needless to say that people who can solve this problem well stand to make a lot more money than 50k if they found a startup specializing in this type of data recovery.