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I think shotspotter's problems are more political than technical. Not to say they don't have technical challenges too: better sensors than the human ear turn o
by h2odragon 4y ago
I think shotspotter's problems are more political than technical.
Not to say they don't have technical challenges too: better sensors than the human ear turn out to be fairly easy, but interpreting that data is still hard. Brains are complicated, "hearing" is a process contributed to by nearly every layer of meat that reacts to sound. The human ability to notice a new noise in the cacophony of everyday life is really an amazing trick if you think about it.
- sdenton4 4y agoI know a non-shotspotter effort to identify gunshot sound in a very different context which also is having a very hard time; there is a real unsolved technical problem here. And it makes me think that ID'ing gun model from audio - which will be harder than simply identifying the existence of gunfire - is going to be very difficult.