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University of Washington researchers release white paper on a new type of spy grid that will use wifi signals of track your every movement around the house.
Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals (White paper)
What is WiSee? (Home Page)
WiSee is a novel interaction interface that leverages ongoing wireless transmissions in the environment (e.g., WiFi) to enable whole-home sensing and recognition of human gestures. Since wireless signals do not require line-of-sight and can traverse through walls, WiSee can enable whole-home gesture recognition using few wireless sources (e.g., a Wi-Fi router and a few mobile devices in the living room).WiSee is the first wireless system that can identify gestures in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and through-the-wall scenarios. Unlike other gesture recognition systems like Kinect, Leap Motion or MYO, WiSee requires neither an infrastructure of cameras nor user instrumentation of devices. We implement a proof-of-concept prototype of WiSee and evaluate it in both an office environment and a two-bedroom apartment. Our results show that WiSee can identify and classify a set of nine gestures with an average accuracy of 94%.
Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right and flip through the songs.University of Washington computer scientists have developed gesture-recognition technology that brings this a step closer to reality. Researchers have shown it’s possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the human body or cameras.By using an adapted Wi-Fi router and a few wireless devices in the living room, users could control their electronics and household appliances from any room in the home with a simple gesture.“This is repurposing wireless signals that already exist in new ways,” said lead researcher Shyam Gollakota, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. “You can actually use wireless for gesture recognition without needing to deploy more sensors.”The UW research team that includes Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering and his lab, published their findings online this week. This technology, which they call “WiSee,” is to appear at The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.The concept is similar to Xbox Kinect – a commercial product that uses cameras to recognize gestures – but the UW technology is simpler, cheaper and doesn’t require users to be in the same room as the device they want to control. That’s because Wi-Fi signals can travel through walls and aren’t bound by line-of-sight or sound restrictions.The UW researchers built a “smart” receiver device that essentially listens to all of the wireless transmissions coming from devices throughout a home, including smartphones, laptops and tablets. A standard Wi-Fi router could be adapted to function as a receiver.When a person moves, there is a slight change in the frequency of the wireless signal. Moving a hand or foot causes the receiver to detect a pattern of changes known as the Doppler frequency shift.These frequency changes are very small – only several hertz – when compared with Wi-Fi signals that have a 20 megahertz bandwidth and operate at 5 gigahertz. Researchers developed an algorithm to detect these slight shifts. The technology also accounts for gaps in wireless signals when devices aren’t transmitting.The technology can identify nine different whole-body gestures, ranging from pushing, pulling and punching to full-body bowling. The researchers tested these gestures with five users in a two-bedroom apartment and an office environment. Out of the 900 gestures performed, WiSee accurately classified 94 percent of them..“This is the first whole-home gesture recognition system that works without either requiring instrumentation of the user with sensors or deploying cameras in every room,” said Qifan Pu, a collaborator and visiting student at the UW.The system requires one receiver with multiple antennas. Intuitively, each antenna tunes into a specific user’s movements, so as many as five people can move simultaneously in the same residence without confusing the receiver.If a person wants to use the WiSee, she would perform a specific repetition gesture sequence to get access to the receiver. This password concept would also keep the system secure and prevent a neighbor – or hacker – from controlling a device in your home.Once the wireless receiver locks onto the user, she can perform normal gestures to interact with the devices and appliances in her home. The receiver would be programmed to understand that a specific gesture corresponds to a specific device.Collaborators Patel and Sidhant Gupta, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering, have worked with Microsoft Research on two similar technologies – SoundWave, which uses sound, and Humantenna, which uses radiation from electrical wires – that both sense whole-body gestures. But WiSee stands apart because it doesn’t require the user to be in the same room as the receiver or the device.In this way, a smart home could become a reality, allowing you to turn off the oven timer with a simple wave of the hand, or turn on the coffeemaker from your bed.The researchers plan to look next at the ability to control multiple devices at once. The initial work was funded by the UW department of computer science and engineering.http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enable-gesture-recognition-throughout-entire-home/
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Protective gear for FPS guards to protect government buildings
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
June 12, 2013
Branding of Tea Party as violent extremists accelerates
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
June 12, 2013
“Months of painstaking planning had gone into the
exercise, dubbed “Operation Urban Shield,” meant to train dozens of
detectives in the Greater Boston area to work together to thwart a
terrorist threat. The hypothetical terrorist group was even given a
name: Free America Citizens, a home-grown cadre of militiamen whose logo
would be a metal skull wearing an Uncle Sam hat and a furious
expression,” reports the Boston Globe.The drill, which was funded with the aid of a $200,000
Department of Homeland Security grant and was set to involve DHS
officials along with other federal authorities, centered on the scenario
of domestic terrorists leaving explosive-filled backpacks at locations
around the city. The exercise was due to take place this weekend but was
postponed in response to the Boston bombings and is now expected to go
ahead early next year.The exercise, many details of which remain confidential,
has been crafted to test the investigative skills of detectives
involved who will be tasked with finding out the motivation behind the
“Free America” terrorists.The drill was planned before the Boston bombings and
officials from a dozen agencies have been meeting for months to plan the
scenario. The exercise bore “eerie similarities” to the real attack in
that police were tasked with identifying terrorists from street
surveillance camera footage.Over the course of the last five years, the DHS has been
criticized for its involvement in numerous training exercises and the
production of material which demonizes conservatives and libertarians as
domestic extremists, putting them in the same league as violent
terrorists.In March, Arkansas State Fusion Center Director Richard Davis admitted that
the federal agency spies on Americans deemed to be “anti-government,”
noting that the DHS concentrates on, “domestic terrorism and certain
groups that are anti-government. We want to kind of take a look at that
and receive that information,” so-called threats which included people,
“putting political stickers in public bathrooms or participating in
movements against the death penalty.”Last year, a DHS-funded study produced
by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to
Terrorism at the University of Maryland characterized Americans who are
“suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of
individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists.The DHS also stoked controversy in
2011 when it released a series of videos to promote the See Something,
Say Something campaign in which almost all of the terrorists portrayed
in the PSAs were white Americans.A mock DHS news report which emerged last month depicted gun owning Americans as dangerous terrorists.A DHS-funded exercise in Seattle last month portrayed “angry” parents who homeschooled their children as terrorists.The 2009 MIAC report,
published by the Missouri Information Analysis Center and first
revealed by Infowars, also framed Ron Paul supporters, libertarians,
people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people
who fly a U.S. flag, as potential terrorists.
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University of Washington researchers release white paper on a new type of spy grid that will use wifi signals of track your every movement around the house.
Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals (White paper)
What is WiSee? (Home Page)
WiSee is a novel interaction interface that leverages ongoing wireless transmissions in the environment (e.g., WiFi) to enable whole-home sensing and recognition of human gestures. Since wireless signals do not require line-of-sight and can traverse through walls, WiSee can enable whole-home gesture recognition using few wireless sources (e.g., a Wi-Fi router and a few mobile devices in the living room).WiSee is the first wireless system that can identify gestures in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and through-the-wall scenarios. Unlike other gesture recognition systems like Kinect, Leap Motion or MYO, WiSee requires neither an infrastructure of cameras nor user instrumentation of devices. We implement a proof-of-concept prototype of WiSee and evaluate it in both an office environment and a two-bedroom apartment. Our results show that WiSee can identify and classify a set of nine gestures with an average accuracy of 94%.
Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right and flip through the songs.University of Washington computer scientists have developed gesture-recognition technology that brings this a step closer to reality. Researchers have shown it’s possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the human body or cameras.By using an adapted Wi-Fi router and a few wireless devices in the living room, users could control their electronics and household appliances from any room in the home with a simple gesture.“This is repurposing wireless signals that already exist in new ways,” said lead researcher Shyam Gollakota, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. “You can actually use wireless for gesture recognition without needing to deploy more sensors.”The UW research team that includes Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering and his lab, published their findings online this week. This technology, which they call “WiSee,” is to appear at The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.The concept is similar to Xbox Kinect – a commercial product that uses cameras to recognize gestures – but the UW technology is simpler, cheaper and doesn’t require users to be in the same room as the device they want to control. That’s because Wi-Fi signals can travel through walls and aren’t bound by line-of-sight or sound restrictions.The UW researchers built a “smart” receiver device that essentially listens to all of the wireless transmissions coming from devices throughout a home, including smartphones, laptops and tablets. A standard Wi-Fi router could be adapted to function as a receiver.When a person moves, there is a slight change in the frequency of the wireless signal. Moving a hand or foot causes the receiver to detect a pattern of changes known as the Doppler frequency shift.These frequency changes are very small – only several hertz – when compared with Wi-Fi signals that have a 20 megahertz bandwidth and operate at 5 gigahertz. Researchers developed an algorithm to detect these slight shifts. The technology also accounts for gaps in wireless signals when devices aren’t transmitting.The technology can identify nine different whole-body gestures, ranging from pushing, pulling and punching to full-body bowling. The researchers tested these gestures with five users in a two-bedroom apartment and an office environment. Out of the 900 gestures performed, WiSee accurately classified 94 percent of them..“This is the first whole-home gesture recognition system that works without either requiring instrumentation of the user with sensors or deploying cameras in every room,” said Qifan Pu, a collaborator and visiting student at the UW.The system requires one receiver with multiple antennas. Intuitively, each antenna tunes into a specific user’s movements, so as many as five people can move simultaneously in the same residence without confusing the receiver.If a person wants to use the WiSee, she would perform a specific repetition gesture sequence to get access to the receiver. This password concept would also keep the system secure and prevent a neighbor – or hacker – from controlling a device in your home.Once the wireless receiver locks onto the user, she can perform normal gestures to interact with the devices and appliances in her home. The receiver would be programmed to understand that a specific gesture corresponds to a specific device.Collaborators Patel and Sidhant Gupta, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering, have worked with Microsoft Research on two similar technologies – SoundWave, which uses sound, and Humantenna, which uses radiation from electrical wires – that both sense whole-body gestures. But WiSee stands apart because it doesn’t require the user to be in the same room as the receiver or the device.In this way, a smart home could become a reality, allowing you to turn off the oven timer with a simple wave of the hand, or turn on the coffeemaker from your bed.The researchers plan to look next at the ability to control multiple devices at once. The initial work was funded by the UW department of computer science and engineering.http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enable-gesture-recognition-throughout-entire-home/
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THE US GOVERNMENT CAN TRACK YOU ANYTIME BY YOUR CELL PHONE
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/court-warrant-cellphone-gps-data
DHS Wants Equipment For “Riot Control Situations”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
June 12, 2013
Image: Wikimedia Commons
The Department of Homeland Security is purchasing
hundreds of items of protective gear for its fleet of Federal Protective
Service officers in order to prepare for “riot control situations,”
increasing concerns that the federal agency is readying for domestic
unrest.A June 10 solicitation posted on the FedBizOpps website seeks
to outfit officers working for the DHS’ Federal Protective Service,
which is primarily used to guard government buildings but has also been
used to spy on protesters.As we reported last month,
FPS officers were used to guard an IRS building in St. Louis during a
Tea Party protest against the federal agency’s discrimination targeting
conservative groups.As GSN reports, the items the DHS is looking to acquire include the following;- 111 Centurion CPX2500 Soft Shell Riot Control System
upper body and shoulder protection, which must “effectively protect the
torso and shoulders from blunt force trauma.”- 123 Centurion TPX200 thigh/groin protection systems
“designed for blunt trauma protection during riot control situations,”
said the solicitation. The gear “protects the thigh area and has an
adjustable and removable groin protector.”- 110 Hatch TS70 Centurion hard shell shin guards, which
must provide “substantial protection from flying debris. Non-ballistic
weapons, and blows to the leg.”- 189 MaxPro-Police riot helmets, which have a “high impact molded half shell helmet with integral visor and neck protector.”The solicitation also includes a request for 116 pairs
of tactical gloves and 128 forearm protectors. The contract includes
four additional one year option periods. The equipment will be delivered
to a Federal Protective Service facility in Alexandria, VA, within 45
days of the award.The reference to “riot control situations” can be found in the “Statement of Work” file at the bottom of the solicitation.Fears that the Department of Homeland Security is
preparing for civil unrest have intensified ever since the agency began
purchasing large quantities of ammunition. Having already committed to
purchasing well over 1.6 billion rounds of bullets over the course of
the last year, a DHS “request for information” issued last month quizzed bullet manufacturers on how fast they can supply large quantities of ammo.The request asked ammo companies if they were capable of
supplying, “large quantity orders of any training caliber specified
with a short turnaround time of 30-60 days.”Last year, the DHS hired hundreds of new FPS guards to protect government buildings across the country.This followed a controversial drill in Florida dubbed “Operation Shield,” during
which FPS agents armed with semiautomatic guns were posted outside a
Social Security office in Florida. The unannounced exercise centered
around “detecting the presence of unauthorized persons and potentially
disruptive or dangerous activities.” Residents were forced to show
identification papers to the guards during the drill.
Whether the DHS is preparing for riots targeting
government buildings remains to be seen, but this will do little to
dampen concerns that big government is arming itself to the teeth while
Americans are being lectured about relinquishing their second amendment
rights.
DHS-Funded Exercise Portrays “Free America Citizens” as Terrorist Cell
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
June 12, 2013
A Homeland Security-funded training exercise in Boston
dubbed “Operation Urban Shield” that was delayed due to April’s marathon
bombing revolved around a terrorist cell dubbed “Free America
Citizens,” another indication of how the DHS is characterizing
liberty-loving Americans as domestic extremists.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
