Observed arrival · 2026-10-13
Wally Finder: Where’s Waldo meets unsecured cameras
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Artist Dries Depoorter’s artwork uses AI to search footage from more than 450 unsecured cameras for people in red-and-white stripes.
- For
- Readers of surveillance art and computer vision
- Worth noticing
- The site says Depoorter checks each match manually, and published clips are blurred and desaturated except for the person in stripes.
Field notes
The workflow samples camera frames at different rates depending on how much is happening in a scene, then asks a general vision-language model a plain-language question. The site says the model runs locally through Ollama, with one frame taking about a second or two. Matches are reviewed by Depoorter before publication, so the displayed results lag behind the ongoing search.
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