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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices

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Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices

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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago
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Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adopt it: detection of “human distress” via audio. As...
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    Oh no, who could have possibly foreseen that this was their endgame?

  • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
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    Flood them with signal so that it’s all noise

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    Does this mean the people playing their crappy music at full blast on speakers as they walk are now providing a public service?

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    No one could’ve ever seen this coming…

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    Here’s a fun trick: If you have N microphones on an area you can filter the audio to N -1 voices using just linear algebra, no AI.

    It’s a very cool trick.

    Now imagine what happens when you add AI and blanket an area.

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      Wait, how? Got a link pls?

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        I had to do a bit of research to remind myself. We did this in university as an exercise, so it was a while ago.

        Basically with N signals (speakers) and M mixes (microphones). When M > N then you can create an MxN matrix and solve it numerically, and we were able to do that pretty easily. We also did the case where M=N as a demo and we used ICA for that with either projection pursuit or SVD, I can’t remember.

        You can read more about this on Wikipedia:

        • Blind Source Separation
        • Independent Component Analysis
        • The exercise we did was a lot like this tutorial https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.2986

        With modern models this would be even easier with fewer microphones, and there’s been a lot of time and money between when these methods were devised and now.

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        My bet is on some Fourier transform fuckery

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      ELI5 please?

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    I want a “target pressure wave attack” necklace

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