Video Analytics
Digital Barriers Releases Live Facial Recognition System For Body-Worn Cameras
Digital Barriers has released SmartVis Identifier, which the company calls the world’s first live facial recognition system for body worn law enforcement cameras. The company integrated its EdgeVis and SmartVis technologies to provide defense, security, and law enforcement agencies with real-time facial recognition against multiple watchlists and databases. The SmartVis facial recognition technology, which was previously available for standard smartphones, has now been adapted to run live on Digital Barriers? body worn cameras designed for frontline law enforcement. Combined with mobile live streaming solution EdgeVis, it makes streaming from body worn devices both operationally and financially viable.
Conduent Incorporated Secures Facial Expression Recognition Technology Patents
Conduent Incorporated (NYSE: CNDT) has been awarded a U.S. patent for technology that automatically recognizes facial expressions using images from low resolution cameras. Since becoming an independent public company on December 31, 2016, the company has been awarded more than 20 patents, with several related to computer vision technology. Automatic facial expression recognition technology builds on Conduent’s expertise in computer vision techniques and enables the company to pursue commercial opportunities in multiple industries.
NEC Provides Facial Recognition System To South Wales (UK) Police
NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) announced that it has provided a facial recognition system for South Wales Police in the UK through NEC Europe Ltd. South Wales Police has deployed NeoFace Watch using CCTV cameras mounted on a number of police vehicles and is using its real-time surveillance capability to locate persons of interest on pre-determined watchlists, including criminals, suspects, vulnerable individuals and missing persons.
Vivotek’s 2MP LPR IP-Camera
In order to deliver greater capabilities in License Plate Recognition, VIVOTEK has partnered with global LPR software developers to capture license plate images for LPR applications. Various options of VIVOTEK LPC (License Plate Capture) cameras provide users the optimal and most suitable camera for their LPR or traffic monitoring purposes in access control, red light enforcement, surveillance and security, traffic monitoring, tolling systems, and free-flow applications.
VSaaS and Video Analytics Drive Convergence Of IoT And Video Surveillance In Enterprise Markets
With the sophistication of video management and analytics software increasing and a surge in high-quality IP cameras, the video surveillance market is in the midst of a technological evolution. As a result, ABI Research, the leader in transformative technology innovation market intelligence, forecasts global value added services market revenues will top $10 billion by 2021. Data and analytics services, as well as device and application platform services, show the strongest revenue growth within the non-consumer video surveillance market.
Genetec Announces AutoVu Motoscan: Scooter-Mounted On-Street Parking Enforcement Solution
Genetec, a leading provider of open architecture security and public safety solutions, will unveil Genetec Motoscan™, a new scooter-mounted on-street parking enforcement solution at this year?s Parkopolis (on the Copperpark booth # E11 9 pavilion 5.1 and Indigo Park booth # C13 pavilion 5.1, Paris, June 21 and 22, 2017).
The Power Of AI In Avigilon Vehicle Search Technology
Avigilon continues to develop their artificial intelligence (AI) video analytics portfolio by adding features to their Avigilon Appearance Search video analytics technology – a sophisticated deep learning AI search engine that sorts through hours of footage with ease. Avigilon recently added the ability to search for vehicles in Avigilon Appearance Search technology, available in the Avigilon Control Center (ACC) 6.2 video management software, to help users gain powerful insights and make effective decisions during an investigation.
PureTech Granted Patent For Tracking Of Aerial Targets Utilizing Video
As the commercial drone market expands at an accelerating rate, so does the risk of malicious use of these devices and the need to successfully detect and take counter measures. This is the focus of the most recent PureTech Systems patent approval. System and Method for Autonomous PTZ Tracking of Aerial Targets (US Patent No 9,652,860 B1), grants claims for video-based detection and tracking of targets against a featureless background, such as airborne aircraft and drones. The patent leverages the PureTech?s continued research and development using geospatial video analytics for both security and safety applications.
BriefCam Joins Arecont Vision Technology Partner Program
Arecont Vision® has announced an expansion of the Technology Partner Program by adding BriefCam, the Video Synopsis® Company. BriefCam?s video analytics offering is available in the Arecont Vision MegaLab™ as part of the partnership in support of mutual customers. BriefCam Syndex Pro helps organizations improve security and operations by turning video data into useful information. Based on BriefCam?s Video Synopsis technology, Syndex Pro allows users to review hours of video in minutes, while applying search filters for achieving accurate results and faster time-to-target.
Object Counting For Free With NetAvis’ iCAT Jump Start
Video analytics should be an integrative component of every video management software. NETAVIS Software pioneered this concept over five years ago. With the initiative iCAT Jump Start, iCAT Video Analytics is now included for free with every Observer installation. Besides improving perimeter security, creating heat maps, and providing vital customer frequency data, iCAT also offers highly accurate object counting. The complex tripwire algorithm detects the direction of objects in the video stream, includes a self-learning component, and prevents double counting. This significantly improves the accuracy and solves a wide range of scenarios.
Genetec Announces Latest Version of AutoVu Free-Flow: Off-Street Parking Enforcement Solution
Genetec, a leading provider of open architecture security and public safety solutions will showcase the latest version of AutoVu™ Free-Flow off-street parking management solution at this year?s IPI Conference and Expo in New Orleans, at booth # 1115. Designed to help increase parking enforcement efficiency by providing a real-time inventory of vehicles parked illegally in monitored parking lots, Free-Flow will now be offered within Genetec Security Center, the company?s unified security platform that combines video surveillance, access control and automatic license plate recognition (ALPR).
NVIDIA Paves Way To AI Cities With Metropolis Edge-To-Cloud Platform For Video Analytics
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference: Paving the way for the creation of AI cities, NVIDIA® (NASDAQ: NVDA) unveiled the NVIDIA Metropolis™ intelligent video analytics platform.
Metropolis makes cities safer and smarter by applying deep learning to video streams for applications such as public safety, traffic management and resource optimization. More than 50 NVIDIA AI city partner companies are already providing products and applications that use deep learning on GPUs, many of which will be on display this week at the GPU Technology Conference.
OpenALPR Technology Announces New Features And Utilities To Aid Law Enforcement Investigations
OpenALPR Technology, a leading provider of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) software, updates its Cloud Stream service by introducing new features which augment license plate recognition and make third party integrations easier. OpenALPR has also added Webhooks to Cloud Stream which will make integrating with third party applications and web services easier. Users can send pre-defined alerts and plate group results to a URL from the Cloud Stream user interface. The Webhooks feature is available for Basic and Professional Cloud Stream users.
BriefCam Delivers NVIDIA GPU-powered Intelligent Video Analytics Solutions
BriefCam®, the Video Synopsis® company, announced that it is bringing video analytics to the next level by delivering solutions powered by NVIDIA GPUs and deep learning. BriefCam?s Syndex Pro, running on NVIDIA technology, will accelerate video processing performance and enable richer metadata extraction at a reduced cost. BriefCam Syndex Pro based on NVIDIA GPUs can run on the cloud, VM, workstation, laptops, or edge devices.
Video Analytics Market: Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast To 2023
The need for enhanced security and demand for gathering insights from customer behavior is driving the video analytics market globally. The market for video analytics is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 20.6% during the forecast period from 2015 to 2023. The global video analytics market was valued at US$ 1,709.0 Mn in 2014. Some of the key factors driving the growth of the video analytics market include the expanding range of vertical applications, a growing trend toward bringing retail outlets and commercial premises under video analytics due to security concerns and the need to monitor and understand the environment around the premises.
Avigilon Previews Future Of Self-Learning Video Analytics
Avigilon Corporation (TSX: AVO), provider of trusted security solutions, showcased their new Avigilon Unusual Motion Detection (“UMD”) video analytics technology at ISC West 2017 last week. UMD is an advanced artificial intelligence (“AI”) technology that brings a new level of automation to surveillance. This technology is designed to continuously learn what typical activity in the scene looks like and focus the operator’s attention on atypical events needing further investigation.
Intel Movidius Helps Bring Artificial Intelligence To Video Surveillance Cameras
Intel Movidius, the world leader in embedded machine vision technology, is helping bring artificial intelligence (AI) to video surveillance cameras.
Movidius participated in an announcement from Dahua Technology USA in which Dahua outlined how it is using Movidius’ Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU) technology to power select Dahua video surveillance cameras. These cameras will go beyond traditional functions such as monitoring and recording by offering advanced video analysis features, such as crowd density monitoring, stereoscopic vision, facial recognition, people counting, behavior analysis, and detection of illegally parked vehicles.
Bosch Emphasizes Intelligence, Integration, And Increased Revenue For Integrators
At ISC West 2017, Bosch Security Systems will introduce new intelligent devices, demonstrate the power of integrated security and communications solutions, and highlight products and services to help integrators increase revenue. Visitors to the Bosch booth will see a completely new portfolio of IP-cameras, video analytics that extend surveillance beyond security, services that create recurring monthly revenue opportunities for dealers, and an innovative all-in-one wireless multi-sensor that can be configured as a door/window contact, water, or tilt sensor.
Robolliance / Sharp USA Supports ISC West Unmanned Security Expo
Founding sponsor of Robolliance, Sharp Electronics Corporation, will also take part in the Unmanned Security Expo by featuring its Sharp INTELLOS Automated Unmanned Ground Vehicle (?A-UGV?). Debuted in September 2016, the Sharp INTELLOS A-UGV is a cost-effective, multi-terrain, mobile sensor platform that can capture video, audio, and environmental data while providing a visible deterrent. The data it collects can enhance outdoor surveillance, security, safety, and maintenance inspections that will help organizations meet the challenges of an ever-changing security landscape by augmenting a skilled guard force.
Robolliance Experts On-Hand For ISC West “Unmanned Security Expo”
This year’s ISC West will be the first-ever Unmanned Security Expo focused on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), and various systems to support robotic technology. The Expo will include a fully functional flight cage and robotics demonstration area, booth exhibits and free education sessions. Robolliance, a forum for technology partners and industry experts in robotics, surveillance, and security created to advance the understanding and awareness of the Autonomous Robotics marketplace, is one of the four primary supporters of the Unmanned Security Expo.