You Are Here, a Viseral Surveillance System Experience

You Are Here tracks and displays the paths of visitors traveling through a large public space. Its goal is to provides an understanding of surveillance systems’ capabilities and a visual representation of information that is normally only accessible as dry statistics.

The overhead tracking is accomplished with an array of six networked firewire cameras:

Relation to my thesis: Impressive implementation of a real-world camera-based location system. Its precision needs a very controlled environment. I focus more on uncontrolled environments in which no specific infrastructure needs to be setup.