BURLINGTON, Mass.—The 7-year-old girl watched a man lift a pair of shoes that weren’t his out of a plastic TSA screening bin and walk away from the checkpoint. “He’s stealing!” Elizabeth Gruber squealed. Look!”Ms. Gruber’s keen eye is what researchers at Northeastern University’s homeland security institute here are trying to automate. The man, Michael Silevitch, wasn’t stealing. The professor of electrical and computer engineering was running a test of computer software built to analyze video in real-time and...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 28, 2018 13:52 UTC