It is a known fact that advertising is made to attract our eyes. Marketers
work very hard to plant visual memories in your mind. They use anomaly phrases,
rhetorical questions, sexy images and ironic text. There are many reasons why
this is done but the biggest reason is that it works. Our eyes are often caught
and our brains captured for a moment while we digest the advertisement. Since
the advertising world has done such a good job in making us look and think there
is a slight hesitation in our gaze and direction of sight. This of course is the
world's best time to snap a shot or grab an image of a human on a surveillance
camera.
One of the best methods of insuring that images are captured is to place them
behind power advertising promotional signs. So often surveillance cameras are
put up on corners of buildings or on ceilings. We saw after the 7-7 London
Transit Bombings images of perpetrators used by police investigators to track
down the other links of suspects and perhaps even prevent future attacks. As we
study the human eye gaze innate characteristics and the time of visual
recognition we see that some images take the mind-eye visual registration a
second extra. This is enough time to catch a really good image of each passer by
for use in face recognition software to use for searching databases of "Watch
List" humans who are most apt to be problematic to our civilization.
Often if a person of ill intentions is casing a location, doing a dry run or
preparing for an evil act, they will avoid cameras when they see them. One
concept is to put up cameras in plain view, which are dummy cameras or decoy
cameras. When someone avoid them they will look away causing an anomaly or
someone who has something to hide. Then as they look away we would be wise to
hide a hidden camera in a somewhat shocking advertisement, behind a glass or
plastic encased ad. As the person looks away he or she is hooked on for a second
longer on the image. Bingo, we got the image even if they attempted to avoid
every camera in the place. This would work in Stadiums, Shopping Malls, Board
Walks and Airports. Think on this.
