How Artificial Intelligence Will Minimise Crime With Advanced Cop Cars

Have you imagined an in-car camera that identifies weapons? The use of artificial intelligence has no limits. In the near future, cops may put in minimal efforts to identify suspected criminals, CNN reports.

Coban Technologies has announced recently, the latest innovation to keep cops a step ahead of suspects. Coban Technology is based in Houston and is in charge of supplying cameras to police departments. The new dashcam has the ability to identify everything from people to guns. The abilities of artificial intelligence are unlimited.

The report says that the dashcam’s features are still limited at the moment but the technology underway will be designed specifically for the law enforcement agency to leverage on advanced technology ‘to make better sense of video data’. Such capabilities to detect suspects and make operations more effective include a software that identifies weapons.

Sgt. Daniel Gomez, leader of the Los Angeles Police Department’s tactical technology section told CNN tech:

‘There’s no doubt there’s value. We want to be on that journey with them to understand where they are going to, and what they are going to do.’

His department is working to see that the camera can be used to serve the community. At the moment, the camera is under scrutiny to see that it performs the said actions. For instance, the dashcam has been tested to analyze traffic stops, to better train the officers.

Following a dialogue over civil liberties concern, Gomez says that the technology may also incorporate facial recognition technology, ahead of its time.

However, Gomez is concerned about the limitations of the dashcam. A dashboard-mounted camera cannot view a person’s face directly because of its inability to go 360 degrees, which is a major hurdle.

A peek into LAPD’s use of data indicates that Coban’s technology proposes to work with six cameras to enable the police departments to turn their cameras into 360-degree, for easy facial recognition. At the moment, police vehicles typically have only one camera on the dashboard. Not only this, the tech is also capable of immediate video- analysis. One of the features may include alerting an officer when someone approaches the vehicle.

In as much as security is a top priority, this innovation raising concerns that bother on security. The nature of the facial-recognition technology violates the rules of privacy. With this technology, the government could track the location of every citizen including those that are far from being suspects.

The entire idea is to use artificial intelligence to minimise crime. With the surveillance cameras and videos filmed from in-car cameras, the bulky videos take a lengthy process to analyze. With Cobam’s technology, however, analyses are instantaneous, making it less tasking yet, more efficient for the officers.

The Vice President, Deepu Tella of the company NVIDIA, a Cobam dashcam partner says:

‘There’s no way there are enough human eyeballs and enough police officers to keep things safe on their own. With one billion cameras coming to smart cities by 2020, you would need three billion people to watch these cameras. That’s not a practical way to do this.’