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December 5, 2011 11:02 pm GMT
DARPA's Shredder Challenge, a contest to reconstruct documents from a slurry of shredded paper, has been solved, suggesting that my grandmother may be barking up the wrong tree when she shreds the Campmor catalog. Two scientists with experience in computer vision and mobile technology, Otavio Good and Keith Walker, scanned each chunk for unique characteristics that allowed them to reconstruct the documents automatically on screen. They then put the pages back together by hand.Their team won a $50,000 prize.
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DARPA Contest Winners Prove Shredders Arent Quite As Safe As You Think
DARPA's Shredder Challenge, a contest to reconstruct documents from a slurry of shredded paper, has been solved, suggesting that my grandmother may be barking up the wrong tree when she shreds the Campmor catalog. Two scientists with experience in computer vision and mobile technology, Otavio Good and Keith Walker, scanned each chunk for unique characteristics that allowed them to reconstruct the documents automatically on screen. They then put the pages back together by hand.Their team won a $50,000 prize.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/prA1c-FZMtY/
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