Originally Posted by
Cale Hunt This is almost unbelievable. Thanks for sharing, Russell.
A bit ahead of their time, the David Sarnoff Research Center (now part of SRI), demonstrated real-time image processing back in the early 90s that would blow your socks off. Things like this were part of the demonstration. Keep in mind that the state of the art in processors was still 2-core Pentium. Some of the demonstrations added objects like balls to live video that could be played with by persons in the video. They also developed the first traffic light controllers that used cameras that is so common today. Imagine recognizing cars, bicycles and pedestrians in the day day, night, in good weather, rain, snow, sleet, fog, etc. I could go on with what i saw when I worked there. Many of these pioneers ended up in top-notch research positions at Microsoft and elsewhere.