Telegraph.co.uk informs us about a new intelligent project sponsored by the European Union with about £10 million, which involves monitoring the online communication channels to detect abnormal behavior sources that could evolve in violence. This is called the Project Indect and is based on artificial intelligence, using advanced computer programs designed to work like monitoring agents in the online world, processing information from discussion boards, web sites, file servers, individual computers and P2P networks.
The automatic monitoring started earlier this year and is controlled by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, computer specialists at the York University and other specialists in nine countries across Europe, all collaborating to fight against terrorism, crimes and migration problems.
While many consider that Project Indect is raising questions on individual liberty, its founders describe it on the official website as an intelligence gathering system working at the Internet level that’s both active and passive. The York University is in charge with developing computational linguistic techniques for learning and collecting information from the web, including entity resolution, relationship mining, sense induction, sentiment analysis, as well as social network analysis.
There’s also a similar project funded by the European Union and called Adabts, or Automatic Detection of Abnormal Behavior and Threats in crowded Spaces, which has received £3 million in funds to search for suspicious behavior detected with CCTV and other techniques, based on people’s body movement and voices.
“People usually don’t start to fight from one second to another,” said Dr Jorgen Ahlberg at the Swedish Defense Research Agency. “They start by arguing and pushing each other. It’s not that ‘oh you are pushing each other, you should be arrested’, it’s to alert an operator that something is going on.”
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