Artist's vision model scans 450+ unsecured CCTV cameras worldwide to find Wally
driesdepoorter · x · 2026-11-09
Artist Dries Depoorter launched Wally Finder, an AI artwork where a vision model watches 450+ unsecured CCTV cameras around the world, day and night, searching for one person: red-and-white stripes and a bobble hat. The pipeline: capture a frame every few seconds from each camera, run the vision model, have Depoorter manually filter false positives, then blur and desaturate clips (keeping only Wally in color) before publishing. The GPU server has run for weeks and the search continues, with results growing on the site. The independent artwork doubles as a pointed demonstration of global unsecured camera privacy risks.
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