The Japanese are developing a 3D video surveillance system

By 2016, in Tokyo, in which, perhaps, the summer Olympic Games will be held, a new video surveillance system should appear. It is being developed with the aim, of course, to protect against terrorism. And the whole point is that the observation will be conducted in the "3D".

In words, everything is simple: a two-dimensional image from the cameras will be transferred to data centers, where it will be transformed into three-dimensional (apparently, there will be a combination of images from different angles). The obtained three-dimensional models of citizens caught in the field of view will be compared in real time with a database of similar three-dimensional models of suspicious subjects and wanted criminals.

The Japanese, who seriously intend to spend about $ 1 million on a new system, believe that such a three-dimensional system will help to calculate the criminal much more effectively than the ordinary ones. Since if in the case of a conventional comparison of the image from the camera, the picture may not allow identification (the angle is wrong, removed from the back, etc.), then creating a three-dimensional model will allow the attacker to be identified with a much greater probability.
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via 3DNews