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You're talking about running image detection on the video footage and correlate with payment system receipts? You could probably hack that together in python i

You're talking about running image detection on the video footage and correlate with payment system receipts? You could probably hack that together in python in 15 minutes, but I doubt there's commercial software offering that functionality. Which means nobody (outside a digital forensics firm) is doing that, and certainly not for $60 worth of gas. And still, that requires the station even noticing missing inventory. I really wonder how long people have been using that hack, you'd probably check for leaks in the underground tank before checking whether your pumps have been compromised...

dylan604 3y ago
>You're talking about running image detection on the video footage and correlate with payment system receipts? Or, do what has been done since the beginning of video recordings used in investigations...have a human sit in front of the screen scanning the footage.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago
  You are potentially paying a human to watch mutple days of video footage to detect $60 of gas. Even at minimum wage, that could be a loss. And then you find out the car was a white Toyota corolla and it's missing a number plate, now what?
  - dylan604 3y ago
    You're advocating paying a dev at a significantly much higher hourly rate to develop something that will find Ryan Gosling stole the gas from Santa's sleigh with a pattern of snakes painted on it. Now what?
bluGill 3y ago
If you can make such a program in 1 week there are plenty of franchises willing to pay for it. It doesn't have to be very good, even if 50% of what you show is a false positive and you only catch 20% of all crimes you say that is still more than enough for a human to look through everything you flag and get the police involved. While it probably directly costs more than eating the loss from these crimes, you only need to catch a few cases to be worth it.

dylan604 3y ago

>You're talking about running image detection on the video footage and correlate with payment system receipts? Or, do what has been done since the beginning of video recordings used in investigations...have a human sit in front of the screen scanning the footage.

ClumsyPilot 3y ago
You are potentially paying a human to watch mutple days of video footage to detect $60 of gas. Even at minimum wage, that could be a loss. And then you find out the car was a white Toyota corolla and it's missing a number plate, now what?
- dylan604 3y ago
  You're advocating paying a dev at a significantly much higher hourly rate to develop something that will find Ryan Gosling stole the gas from Santa's sleigh with a pattern of snakes painted on it. Now what?

bluGill 3y ago

If you can make such a program in 1 week there are plenty of franchises willing to pay for it. It doesn't have to be very good, even if 50% of what you show is a false positive and you only catch 20% of all crimes you say that is still more than enough for a human to look through everything you flag and get the police involved. While it probably directly costs more than eating the loss from these crimes, you only need to catch a few cases to be worth it.