9,000 teams registered for the shot at $50,000, but it took one three-man team just 33 days to solve DARPA’s Shredder Challenge, a contest to read destroyed documents. San Francisco-based “All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.” took the prize two days before the close of the competition, exhibiting the ability to blend computer vision algorithms and human know-how to reconstruct five different documents that had been run through a paper shredder and converted to more than 10,000 total pieces of paper.
That is amazing! I wonder how they did it..? And if it took them 5 days, it leaves me to assume that there are people who are so keen that they can reassemble documents even faster than that!
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We need better shredders! It is sad that we need them at all.
ReplyDeleteAmazing, I would not have believed such a competition. Amazing the stuff I don't know! hahaha
ReplyDeleteThis is scary. If these guys can reconstruct documents with sensitive information... I need a shredder that does it better.
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