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February 17, 2018
Service blocks access to corruption claim-related posts despite YouTube failing to meet similar demand.
researchers of the NETMIT group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, are using WiFi signals to detect the breathing and heart rate of individuals in a room. They’ve just released a couple videos showing off the technology in action
When applying for a loan, mobile phone contract, or even trying to rent an apartment in Germany, the Schufa score - Germany’s credit rating - is decisive. If you have a few „points“ too little, yo...
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A while back I decided to no longer use the router given to me by my ISP. You may want to consider doing the same.
Private search engines have seen huge growth over the past few years. Until recently, it was unthinkable that anyone could compete with…
A British spy agency secretly hacked a company in Belgium then evaded an extraordinary police investigation.
The paradoxical truth I’m driving at is that today’s technologies of individualization are technologies of mass individualization. Customization can be surprisingly homogenizing. Everyone, or nearly everyone, is on Facebook: It is the most convenient way to keep track of your friends and family, who in theory should represent what is unique about you and your life. Yet Facebook seems to make us all the same. Its format and conventions strip us of all but the most superficial expressions of individuality, such as which particular photo of a beach or mountain range we select as our background image.
I recently listened to a podcast with the founders of a startup by the name of Aerial (https://aerial.ai) that that is doing real-time location mapping and activity detection using wifi and deep learning.
NOTE: I'm in no way related to this company or the podcast (aside from being an occasional listener).
Episode page: https://twimlai.com/talk/107
Direct episode link: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/393602724-twiml-twiml-ta...
Episode description:
In this episode I’m joined by Michel Allegue and Negar Ghourchian of Aerial.ai. Aerial is doing some really interesting things in the home automation space, by using wifi signal statistics to identify and understand what’s happening in our homes and office environments.
Michel, the CTO, describes some of the capabilities of their platform, including its ability to detect not only people and pets within the home, but surprising characteristics like breathing rates and patterns. He also gives us a look into the data collection process, including the types of data needed, how they obtain it, and how it is parsed. Negar, a senior data scientist with Aerial, describes the types of models used, including semi-supervised, unsupervised and signal processing based models, and how they’ve scaled their platform, and provides us with some real-world use cases.
RF-Capture has many applications, like:
It can know who the person behind a wall is.
It can trace a person's handwriting in air from behind a wall.
It can determine how a person behind a wall is moving .
Social network instructed to delete illegally collected data or face €100m in fines after it loses case over consent and tracking
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The URLs [1] [2] describe the content. I thought [1] was interesting but not answering your question. [2] Answers your question, and shows black and white and thermal pictures.
[1] https://www.medgadget.com/2014/06/mits-wifi-system-detects-p... (June 2014)
[2] https://hackaday.io/project/5452-wifi-thermal-camera (2015)
[EDIT] I stand corrected, [2] is unrelated. My bad! Here's some good sources as alternative.
"MIT turns Wi-Fi Into Indoor GPS New tech from CSAIL lab lets one Wi-Fi device locate another to within centimeters" [3]
"RF-Capture: Capturing the Human Figure Through a Wall
It can know who the person behind a wall is. It can trace a person's handwriting in air from behind a wall. It can determine how a person behind a wall is moving." [4]
They also contain further resources.
[3] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/mit-tur...