As someone who looks at the practical advantages of technology more so than the artistic opportunities, after reviewing the provided reading/video resources about computer vision and zeroUI, I immediately thought of products such as Amazon Echo, Google Nest, etc., particularly regarding security. In many TV crime shows I feel like the idea of “crime response vs crime prevention” is a large motif, usually with some character on the brink of going around protocols or going against rules to preemptively prevent a crime when they know someone is about to commit a crime but cannot prove it. Camera security has been around for decades if not years but the need to manually monitor them has been a major limitation in that form of security. Even with cameras on, it is hard to prevent crime, even if it helps in recovering from it. With computer vision and AI, however, products such as Google Nest Cams can automatically distinguish humans, animals, and other elements from the environment and alerts the owner of something suspicious going on. In their product introduction video, they even showcase a scenario where mailmen, wild animals, and burglars come. It notifies the owner’s phone and allows you to speak through a loudspeaker attached to the camera to communicate directly with the friendly or otherwise visitor. Although more of an individual product, the ability to distinguish different entities can be applied to a much larger scale, allowing things such as companies automatically determining when employees clock in and out of work, or governments building databases of their citizens. As computer vision becomes more and more refined, security, without a doubt will adapt to be more effective.
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