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I was thinking that same thing this morning. I've seen people on reddit find where people live just from a photo out of their front window. I've seen people tra

by xauronx 14y ago

I was thinking that same thing this morning. I've seen people on reddit find where people live just from a photo out of their front window. I've seen people track down stuffed animals that were made 20 years ago. The human hivemind and it's capabilities has to be put to a valid use occasionally. Anyhow... What specific goals would you be trying to reach? Identify every individual who was there? Try to find photos from before the incident of people with suspicious objects?

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jeffreyrusso 14y ago
I was down at the finish line (on the opposite side of the street) a couple of hours before the bombing watching a family member cross the finish line. My worry is that the crowd was so tightly packed that it might be tough to get any footage of what was happening at ground level. If I had simply looked down to see my feet, I wouldn't have been able to see them because we were so crammed in. If an object was on the ground, or if someone carried a backpack in at ground level, it seems like it could be missed by even the thousands of people snapping photos at all angles. That being said, I'm wondering if you couldn't use some sort of facial recognition in conjunction with timestamps to track/detect unusual movements (like someone who quickly moves into the area of the detonation, then turns around and quickly moves out.)