Project description
Security Vision: the security politics of computer vision
Smart CCTV, social media video content moderation, military drone footage: threats are not being detected by humans, but by computer algorithms trained to understand images. Yet how do these technologies of computer vision, which promise to replace humans in the understanding of images, work in practice in the field of security? What are their ethical and political implications? There is currently a gap in our knowledge of how these technologies impact the governmental and private sectors, their decision-making and the fundamental rights of those targeted. The EU-funded SECURITY VISION project aims to address these challenges through an innovative framework that investigates the theoretical, empirical and political implications of the development of computer vision in the field of security.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata science
- humanitiesartsmodern and contemporary artradio and television
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer vision
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studies
Call for proposal
ERC-2019-COG
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Funding Scheme
ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant
Host institution
2311 EZ Leiden
Netherlands
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Beneficiaries (1)
2311 EZ Leiden
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