{"id":167976,"date":"2023-07-21T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/software-system-can-find-track-moving-objects-as-small-as-a-pixel"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:25:13","slug":"software-system-can-find-track-moving-objects-as-small-as-a-pixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/software-system-can-find-track-moving-objects-as-small-as-a-pixel","title":{"rendered":"Software system can find, track moving objects as small as a pixel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/software-system-can-find-track-moving-objects-as-small-as-a-pixel3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember what it\u2019s like to twirl a sparkler on a summer night? Hold it still and the fire crackles and sparks but twirl it around and the light blurs into a line tracing each whirl and jag you make.<\/p>\n<p>A new patented software system developed at Sandia National Laboratories can find the curves of motion in streaming video and images from satellites, drones and far-range security cameras and turn them into signals to find and track moving objects as small as one <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/pixel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pixel<\/a>. The developers say this system can enhance the performance of any remote sensing application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to track each pixel from a distance matters, and it is an ongoing and challenging problem,\u201d said Tian Ma, a computer scientist and co-developer of the system. \u201cFor physical security surveillance systems, for example, the farther out you can detect a possible threat, the more time you have to prepare and respond. Often the biggest challenge is the simple fact that when objects are located far away from the sensors, their size naturally appears to be much smaller. Sensor sensitivity diminishes as the distance from the target increases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember what it\u2019s like to twirl a sparkler on a summer night? Hold it still and the fire crackles and sparks but twirl it around and the light blurs into a line tracing each whirl and jag you make. A new patented software system developed at Sandia National Laboratories can find the curves of motion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1488,2028,1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-drones","category-satellites","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}