Security News > 2021 > November > How to find hidden spy cameras with a smartphone

Researchers from the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University in South Korea have devised a mobile application that uses smartphones' time-of-flight sensor to find tiny spy cameras hidden in everyday objects.

The app is more successful at detecting hidden cams than existing state-of-the-art commercial hidden camera detectors and much more successful than the human eye/brain.

The researchers' quest to create a more effective method of detecting hidden spy cams has resulted in the creation of the LAPD app, which can work on any smartphone with a ToF sensor.

LAPD processes these saturated areas to automatically identify the hidden camera and its location and displays it on the user's smartphone screen.

On the other hand, the solution's accuracy could be further augmented through the use of smartphone's flashlight and RGB cameras and its use can be complemented by WiFi-based solutions to pinpoint the general locations where the cameras are hidden.

The researchers plan to open source the app, so that people can help make it better; to implement some of the aforementioned complementary technologies; and then finally to release it to the public, so that anyone who has a smartphone with a ToF sensor can freely use it to find hidden cameras.

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