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We made a gun detector (Patreon)

Published:
2019-09-29 13:42:31
Imported:
2026-06

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Hey... thank you for supporting Smarter Every Day by being a Patron.  In today's political climate, a video like this is obviously going to attract a lot of people of ill intent.

The goal here is to use technology to help save lives, all the while preserving the rights of the individual.  If you get a chance to share this video please consider it.  My goal is to start the discussion, because this technology already exists.  Is this a perfect solution? No way.  Is it a step towards an improvement?  Maybe.  I've always liked using science and engineering to try to help others, and this is an attempt to do that.

Thanks again.

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We built a gun detector using machine learning that works with existing surveillance cameras. Get started with 8 free meals – that’s $80 off your first month of HelloFresh. Go to https://bit.ly/2PGu55r and enter smarter80 Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION There are many companies working on this type of technology at the moment. We made ours in 2018, and Chad visited my house in January 2019 to film most of this. We didn't post it for various reasons, but decided now might be a good time. The fidelity of the inference is a function of how you train it.... so obviously the more data points you provide, the better it will perform. This particular type of machine learning is known as object detection, with the computation being performed by a deep neural network "on the edge". The video stream is processed locally and no internet is needed to find the object in real time. If you're working on something similar or could use this technology in your systems and would like to collaborate.... (or would simply like to support what we're doing) please reach out by using this link: https://www.lantern.systems/gun-detector ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tweet Ideas to me at: http://twitter.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay Smarter Every Day on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day On Instagram http://www.instagram.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day SubReddit http://www.reddit.com/r/smartereveryday Ambiance, audio and musicy things by: Gordon McGladdery https://www.ashellinthepit.com/ http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/ If you feel like this video was worth your time and added value to your life, please SHARE THE VIDEO! If you REALLY liked it, feel free to pitch a few dollars Smarter Every Day by becoming a Patron. http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Warm Regards, Destin

Comments

Yukigamine

Yes, warning because his finger is on the trigger!

Kristy

Groooooooan... such a dad joke!

AJ Peck

I’m super proud of you for opening a discussion on this topic.

Brandon Morse

Get ready for half the video comments to point out trigger discipline in the thumbnail 🙄 happy that you're jumping into the discussion though!

Kevin

That finger inside the trigger guard though :)

Louis D. Monaghan, Jr.

Thank you for another great video about exciting tech. Your youtube views were around 29K when I started to watch the video and at 39K when I refreshed after viewing, so a bit under 1K views per minute, all in the first 90 minutes. While I hope that's simply all of your patrons checking in, I don't think the video will get buried. (Oh, and yes I came to mention trigger etiquette in the thumbnail, and I can't tell you how incredibly gratified I was to see so much educated commentary already posted)

Workbench

Trigger discipline! ;) Can't wait to see it.

Andrew J Miller

2 things, does this detect rifles? All I think I saw in the video was it detecting handguns. Be careful where you share this, I just got a permanent ban on r/guns for sharing this lol

Daniel Ryan

Destin, I saw on the desk when you picked up the handguns that you had some toy guns as well. Why didn't you show whether or not the system detected toys as real guns or not? I can see the obvious difficulty in training the AI not to detect toys as actual guns, but it may have been worth discussing why it does or does not pick them up as a gun. Just a thought, was a little disappointed not to see this tested or discussed. Otherwise, a very interesting discussion and idea. I feel skeptical a CCTV camera would have enough resolution to pick up a gun in a real world scenario considering how wide of an angle they have and how much area they cover. As we saw even at a distance of 8-10 feet the system struggled to pickup the gun, with greater distance and lower resolution that problem becomes even harder. Not saying it isn't a good idea or system, but it would require massive training improvements to get it to a level that would make sense in a existing security system.

Dungerdore

Thanks for brining this to the table. I look forward to future discussions! Real solutions and real discussions are needed more and more so thank you!

Naegling

Detection does nothing without a quicker response. I'm afraid this tech will be used as the technology version of a "gun free zone" sign. It will give false security to those that do not want to face the problem head on and realize that it always takes a good guy with a gun to eliminate those that do evil with a gun. My other fear is that there will be enough false flags with this technology (not just yours) that it will produce a situation that numbs our first responders called to an actual situation. Ultimately, I don't think technology and the further stigmatization of firearms is the answer to the problem. People willing to take personal responsibility for their own safety, and those that they are entrusted to protect is the only way we are going to stop these incidents from happening.

Richard Wessels

Please change the thumbnail pic to show promote proper trigger discipline. Keep you finger off the trigger unless you are ready to shoot. I doubt you are trying to discharge in your house.

Michael Gundlach

Awesome! Here we all think you missed something and you're thinking at the next level about engagement. Well done, change my vote to A :)

Derek Kind

I love that you're willing to take the risk to bring a little practicality and nuance into the firestorm. Thank you, sir.

Brandon Morse

Knowing your past content I assumed it was intentional after I thought about it a bit :)

That-Other-Guy

I'm very glad that you brought up privacy violations by systems meant to see through clothes. It's very refreshing to see this, especially from popular channels like yours.

Clifton Ballad

Hi Destin! I admit I was slightly concerned when the video started, but your assertion that the 4th amendment was important helped a lot with that. I want to share with you results of debates I've had with friends about issues like school shootings. Most of the time (given enough chance to talk with the person) we have agreed that response time is the most important thing to ending an active shooter. Most of the people I've had that discussion with have issue with armed teachers out of fear of creating more potential shooting situations, like the teacher may fly off the handle or some student may take their firearm. The solution that I have gotten 99% of people (the 1% didnt like guns AT ALL) to agree to was having the firearm in a lockbox tied to the school alert system. The school goes into lockdown, the lock box opens, and the teacher can access the firearm. I feel your system would work perfectly with that, and that you should look into developing it further. I can't help you much on the software/electronics end, but if you need a metal box that no one can get into, let me know. Keep up the good work! Clif

Pasha Alpeyev

Would love to find out more technical detail on the project. - assume it's a CNN, but was it trained from scratch or did it use transfer learning? - how long did it take to train? - what hardware is inside that box (Jetson, presumably) - any other interesting challenges / insights