January 3, 2010

The passion for blackjack by college students is well known, but unlike what usually happens in this case the intention is not just to beat the dealer, such as counting cards in the famous film “21″ but just to avoid that someone has success in this type of business.

And ‘what he conceived Kris Zutis, A student of 22 years’ sUniversity of Dundee, young, a native of Latvia has almost finished developing a software that should be able to recognize suspicious behavior to the blackjack tables in casinos. Kris expresses a casual poker player, and in fact beginning his program was designed just for playing poker, but then it soon became apparent very best for the black jack.

Zutis and now the software has attracted the interest of the black jack sees not so much the game as a source of profit, and wanted to use this program to keep away from their tables the players uncomfortable, thanks to a group of cameras positioned ad hoc registers all movements at the table, are stored on the cards but the bets and the amounts in order to be able to identify players intent to take the trick of counting the cards, but the software would be able also note any errors of the counter of online casinos.

Dr. Jesse Hoey, Oversaw the project Zutis, with the cooperation of staff Gala of Dundee, but the software is not yet ready for commercialization, and for this reason, the graduate will participate in the International Conference on Computer Vision Systems be held in Belgium just in the month of October in progress, really good opportunity to find a sponsor who will allow him to refine his plan.