Video Analytics
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 market research report on video surveillance by IHS Technology, entitled ?Video Content Analysis-World-2015.? Agent Vi has been in the video analytics market since 2003 and […]
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 with directly attached storage. With the new server, these applications can connect directly to Quantum?s QXS? Series disk storage or as clients in an Xcellis […]
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. BCDVideo is the first system integrator to adopt Avaya NOS software for private label distribution. ?Until this point, the only option available to the video […]
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 report titled ?World IP Video Surveillance and VSaaS Market?, the global IP video surveillance and VSaaS market is expected to reach $61.3 billion by 2022. […]
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.
Alibaba Demos ‘Smile to Pay’ Facial Recognition App
Alibaba just made a huge leap forward in identity verification, moving beyond fingerprint- and eyeball-scanning to facial recognition. Founder Jack Ma took center stage at the CeBit 2015 conference in Hannover, Germany, to demonstrate Smile To Pay, Alibaba’s smartphone payment system.
Xtralis Introduces ADPRO XOa 3, the First Convergence Software Platform With Security, Safety, Business Intelligence, and Building Management Services
Xtralis® released the ADPRO® XOa™ 3 SecurityPlus Remotely Programmable Operating System for FastTrace™ 2 Series Remotely Managed Multi-service Gateways (RMG). Xtralis is renowned for its best-in-class early and reliable detection, automatic remote visual verification through any network condition, and remote multi-level response, which vastly improves guarding services at significantly lower costs or enables the replacement of human guards while avoiding the unnecessary dispatch of first responders.
54% of Federal Video Surveillance Data Goes Unanalyzed
MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT, announced the results of its new report, The Video Vortex.
The study, based on a survey of 151 Federal decision makers —evenly split between physical security and IT managers— and sponsored by EMC Corporation, looks at video surveillance across Federal IT and the opportunities for agencies to enhance the value of their video data assets.
Genetec and Prism Skylabs Help Retailers Gain in-Store Insights With Retail Analytics Suite
By integrating Prism with Security Center, retailers can extend their existing video surveillance camera system to provide valuable in-store data and metrics to monitor store traffic reports, monitor customer shopping trends, and remotely inspect store merchandising and brand displays.
PureTec Systems Announces New Patent for Video Analytics on PTZ Cameras
PureTech Systems Inc., an Arizona-based geospatial video analytics company, announced the issuance of a patent by the United States Patent Office – US Patent No 8,929,603 ?Autonomous Lock-On Target Tracking with Geospatial-Aware PTZ Cameras.? The newly awarded patent addresses PureTech Systems? technology growth in the area of utilizing video analytics on pan-tilt-zoom cameras whether stationary or on a mobile platform.