Analysts at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia designed a computer program that would identify stolen cars in traffic. The program is bullt from hexagonal pixels which allows a computer to perfectly spot plate numbers reported as stolen. The university’s director of strategy and programming Geoff Hughes said the project can also be used in fixed speed cameras, which can be employed as an intelligence gathering tool by authorities. "One of the failings of existing camera technology is that they often can't read the state designator on the plate, and because number plate sets are duplicated between jurisdictions, that can confuse the camera," Hughes explained. It took researchers 3 years to finish the project, using up $156,000, which also allowed them to create a Spiral Architecture, a data structure where images are represented as collections of hexagonal pixels.
