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Accenture Survey Reveals Perception Of Video Analytics And Facial Recognition
Accenture?s Digital Pulse survey recently asked citizens to weigh in on the top-three ways that government can keep citizens safe at public events such as parades, political conventions or concerts. The survey asked whether government should monitor social media for potential threats, increase government and police collaboration, or use facial recognition and video analytic technology to thwart attacks.
How A Prison Drug Smuggling Case In Kansas Led To A Showdown Over Recordings Of Inmate-Attorney Talks
When attorneys said in court recently that phone calls between lawyers and inmates at Leavenworth Detention Center had been recorded and obtained by federal prosecutors, the development was just the latest revelation in what a United States public defender says was a systemic violation of constitutional rights.
Sensity Systems Acquires Leading Computer Vision Systems Provider Eutecus
Sensity Systems Inc., provider of a leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform for Smart Cities, announced it has acquired Eutecus, an embedded software and configurable processor solutions provider for critical video and multi-sensory analytics systems. The combined company will provide customers with leading computer vision powered solutions in a comprehensive IoT platform for Smart Cities.
NEC Delivers Facial Recognition System For South Australia Police
NEC Australia, a leading technology services company, together with NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), today announced it has been selected to deliver South Australia Police?s facial recognition system, its latest weapon against crime in the state to support forensic, investigative and front-line policing operations. The facial recognition technology will help South Australia Police (SAPOL) solve crimes faster, apprehend criminals earlier, and assist with criminal investigations, including searching for missing persons more efficiently. SAPOL expects the system to contribute to a safer community.
How Deep Learning Is Advancing Video Analytics
Deep learning technologies are making it possible to process and analyze vast streams of footage. It?s an area that?s been seeing significant investment and research. Mimicking the process of the human brain, the technique uses sophisticated, multi-level, ?deep? neural networks to create systems that can perform feature detection from massive amounts of unlabeled training data. Data scientists in both industry and academia are using graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate their deep learning algorithms. GPUs process highly parallel computing tasks —like video and graphics— quickly and efficiently.
Video Analytics Market Research Global Forecast to 2021
The video analytics market size is estimated to grow from US$1.69 billion in 2016 to US$4.23 billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20.2% from 2016 to 2021. The video analytics market is driven by factors such as increasing security threats and need for intelligent surveillance and increasing demand of video analytics for non-security purpose.
NEC Trials Facial Recognition-Based Cashless Payment, Wins Award For Ticket ID System
NEC Corporation announced it is implementing a series of trials for cashless payment services using its facial recognition technologies at small retail stores inside its head office building in Tokyo. The trials will run until the end of August as a part of the company?s initiatives to apply its biometrics authentication technologies to several different services, including cashless payment, in an effort to improve the reliability and convenience of the identification process.
4 Ways Intelligent Video Analytics Enhance Body-Worn Cameras
Body-worn cameras have been a growing trend in the law enforcement community for the last several years. Yet, as agencies worldwide establish body-worn camera programs, they are challenged with how to access, manage, protect, search, and easily share that video. The hundreds to even millions of hours of video that agencies —depending on size— are capturing weekly is simply overwhelming them and complicates compliance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Criminal Justice Information Standards (CJIS) requirements. Agencies can deploy Video Analytics solutions to help them face these challenges in four key ways.
Agent Video Intelligence Ranked #1 in Global Video Analytics Market Share
Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi) has been named as the No. 1 provider of video analytics software, holding the largest market share globally. The ranking was published in a recent […]
New Quantum Application Server Brings Greater Versatility For VMS and Analytic Applications
Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) announced Xcellis? Application Director, a new addition to its surveillance and security solution family which enables customers to run video management systems (VMS) or analytic applications […]
BCDVideo, Avaya Simplify Networking For Video Surveillance With Titan Switches
BCDVideo and Avaya have partnered together to create Titan Networking. This new line of video surveillance switches will be powered by Avaya?s network operating system software (NOS) Avaya Fabric Connect. […]
World IP Video Surveillance And VSaaS Market Worth US$61.3 Billion By 2022
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the ?World IP Video Surveillance & VSaaS Market: Opportunities and Forecasts, 2015 ? 2022? report to their offering. According to a new […]
Avigilon’s ‘Appearance Search’ Advances Video Surveillance
Avigilon Corporation (TSX: AVO), provider of trusted security solutions, announced it will preview the new Avigilon Appearance Search video analytics technology at IFSEC International 2016, ExCel Centre stand G950, in London, United Kingdom. In concert with this announcement, Avigilon has filed the first in a series of international patent applications covering Avigilon Appearance Search.
U.S. Intelligence Community Examining Video Analytics
The purpose of the conference, which will be held in Washington, DC, will be to provide information on DIVA and the research problems the program aims to address, to address questions from potential proposers and to provide a forum for potential proposers to present their capabilities for teaming opportunities. The DIVA program will be designed to develop robust automated activity detection for a multi-camera streaming video environment. As an essential aspect of DIVA, activities will be enriched by person and object detection, as well as recognition at multiple levels of granularity. DIVA is anticipated to be a three-phase program. The DIVA program will produce a common framework and software prototype for activity detection, person and/or object detection and recognition across a multi-camera network. The impact will be the development of tools for forensic analysis, as well as real-time alerting for user defined threat scenarios.
SentiVeillance Provides Biometric Identification and Object Tracking for Video Surveillance Systems
Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification and object recognition technologies, today announced the availability of the SentiVeillance 4.0 software development kit (SDK). This latest version has a new name and provides a number of enhancements over the previous version (known as VeriLook Surveillance 3.1) that support its use in a wider range of surveillance, security, and public safety applications. Working with live video streams from single or multiple high-resolution digital surveillance cameras, the new SentiVeillance provides real-time object detection and classification, biometric face identification of multiple people moving in different directions.
PureTech Systems Supports Upgrade of Remote Video Surveillance System for Customs and Border Protection
PureTech Systems Inc., a leading manufacturer of geospatial video analytic software, announced that it recently completed the initial field deployment and test of the Remote Video Surveillance System (RVSS) Upgrade for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency. This test successfully demonstrated the technical capabilities of the system and was a key program milestone in its deployment schedule, which includes installation at additional border patrol stations this year.
Study Says That More Than 50 Percent of Federal Video Surveillance Data Goes Unanalyzed
Video Surveillance data when analyzed carefully will give a lot of informative outcomes. But a recent study made by MeriTalk —a public-private partnership dedicated to improve outcomes of government IT— says that 54% of video surveillance data gathered by the federal government goes unanalyzed leaving a vast amount of information on the table when it comes to improving the nation’s security.
Cognitec Unveils Real Time Face Detection Camera
The FaceVACS-VideoScan C5 camera from Cognitec. Germany-based facial recognition technology developer Cognitec has unveiled a new video camera featuring a built-in facial recognition system. The FaceVACS-VideoScan C5 camera is an IP video camera that offers high image quality over low bandwidth. The video camera’s face biometrics technology employs gapless, real-time face detection and tracking, and produces lossless video streams for each face that it detects.
Telstra Invests in Video Analytics Specialist
Telstra announced it has made an equity investment in Gorilla Technology Group, a Taiwanese-based global leader in video analytics for business intelligence, security, enterprise unified communications, education, and broadcast media and entertainment.
Skepticism About Alipay Facial Recognition Rises
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In the wake of Alipay’s announcement that it is going to use facial recognition technology for user authentication in mobile payments, some are starting to ask if that kind of security is really enough. Dan Moren, in particular, says he has found a flaw in the system in a new Popular Science article.