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Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

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Re: Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

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Love it. This is a game mechanic / movie superhero device that's been around a long time, just love the fact that this does it so simply and with so much promise. As sensitivity and the quality of the neural net increases, combined with AR, this is going to make super soldiers out of SWAT teams.

I hope you're not doing anything illegal, citizen.

Re: Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

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post #6

Love it. This is a game mechanic / movie superhero device that's been around a long time, just love the fact that this does it so simply and with so much promise. As sensitivity and the quality of the neural net increases, combined with AR, this is going to make super soldiers out of SWAT teams.

Maybe SWAT can use this to validate that it's actually the right house when serving a no-knock warrant. I'm cynical enough to feel like there's no way this is good for any of their targets, though.

Edit: Kolpa makes a really good point! This seems like a really good counter to SWATting, where the claim is that someone is holding hostages or something -- this could pretty effectively demonstrate that to be false if they see one person in an apartment sitting at a computer.

Re: Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

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Just like people running open WiFi access points getting upset about anyone reading their packets. They don't think about what they can't see.

A building that doesn't block radio and IR (and others) is essentially transparent. Putting an emitter like a WiFi point inside is like turning on a light.

What we need is more attention put to building better walls.

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