Trying to spot contraband is a tricky business. Not only is identifying items like narcotics and counterfeit merchandise difficult, but the current most used technology—X-rays—only gives a 2D view, and often a muddy one at that.
“It’s not like X-raying a tooth, where you just have a tooth,” said Eric Miller, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Tufts. Instead, it’s like X-raying a tooth and getting the entire dental exam room.
But Miller and his research team have now found a possible solution that uses AI with deep learning to spot items that shouldn’t be there and is accurate 98% of the time. Their findings were published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
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