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A Quintillion Live Pixels: The Challenge of Continuously Interpreting and Organizing the World's Visual Information - Kayvon Fatahalian
Pages 25-28

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From page 25...
... Many others, however, clearly have the potential for critical impact on central human challenges of the coming decades. Sophisticated image analysis, deployed at scale, will play a role in realizing efficient autonomous transportation, optimizing the daily operation of future megacities, enabling fine-scale environmental monitoring, and advancing how humans access information and interact with information technology.
From page 26...
... To achieve commodity, pervasive AR demands continuous, lowenergy egocentric video capture and analysis. More ambitiously, for computers to take on a more expansive role in augmenting human capabilities (e.g., the ever-present life assistant)
From page 27...
... . While today's deployments are largely motivated by security concerns, the ability to sense and understand the flow of urban life both in public and private spaces provides unique opportunities to better manage modern urban challenges such as optimizing urban energy consumption, monitoring infrastructure and environmental health, and informing urban planning.
From page 28...
... 2015. Video Surveillance Camera Installed Base Report.


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