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IMAGE: Yung-Hsiang Lu, a professor in Purdue's College of Engineering, is leading a team working on several patented technologies related to public cameras.
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Credit: Purdue University/John Underwood
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Technology similar to massive search engines used to scour the web may soon be used to provide new insights into consumer behavior and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies across the world. The technology also may be a useful tool for reducing misinformation in news media.
Purdue University innovators have created several patented technologies that they combined into a computer system to acquire and analyze real-time visual data from millions of globally distributed network cameras. The innovators define network cameras as those connected to the Internet and continuously capturing data.