Milestone Integration Platform Symposium Celebrates Winning Through Partnership
Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), held its 10th annual MIPS partner conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week. It was their largest-ever gathering with close to 500 attendees and 50 exhibiting companies in the Technology Showcase that demonstrated integrated solutions for enhancing safety and optimizing business.
DVTEL Welcomes New Vice President of Sales, Americas, and Global Accounts
DVTEL, INC., the video surveillance solutions provider, announced the addition of John Skowronski as DVTEL’s new VP of Sales, the Americas and Global Accounts. Mr. Skowronski brings an extensive history of sales, marketing and business development experience with a wide variety of leading security and technology companies.
QEOS Leaps Forward With US$40M Silicon Valley Acquisition
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Quantum Electro Opto Systems Sdn Bhd (QEOS) has acquired Silicon Valley-based Centric Technologies LLC’s Intellectual Property (IP) assets and people in a US$40 million (RM129 million) deal that announces its global ambitions. QEOS is a Malaysia-based provider of high-speed, low-power connectivity and intelligent video security solutions. According to Dr Gabriel Walter, […]
US Government Intel Researchers ‘Radically Rxpand’ Facial Recognition Capabilities
Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP The United States intelligence community’s research arm is set to launch a program that will thoroughly broaden the capabilities of biometric facial recognition software in order to establish an individual’s identity. The Janus program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) will begin in April 2014 in an effort to “radically expand the range of conditions under which automated face recognition can establish identity,” according to documents released by the agency over the weekend. Janus “seeks to improve face recognition performance using representations developed from real-world video and images instead of from calibrated and constrained collections. During daily activities, people laugh, smile, frown, yawn and morph their faces into a broad variety of expressions. For each face, these expressions are formed from unique skeletal and musculature features that are similar through one’s lifetime. Janus representations will exploit the full morphological dynamics of the face to enable better matching and faster retrieval.” Current facial recognition relies mostly on full-frontal, aligned facial views. But, in the words of Military & Aerospace Electronics, Janus will fuse “the rich spatial, temporal, and contextual information available from the multiple views captured by security cameras, cell phone cameras, news video, and other sources referred to as ‘media in the wild.’” In addition, Janus will take into account aging and incomplete or ambiguous data for its recognition assessment goals. IARPA was created in 2006 and is a division of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The […]
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Hollywood Comes To Video Surveillance
Dailies. B-Rolls. Circle-Takes. These digital video oriented processes of the “Hollywood” production marketplace have –for nearly a decade now– seen an explosion in the volume of recorded video that must be stored and managed. Entirely new workflows have been created to handle the deluge of video that digital movie-set cameras have unleashed. In the old days parts of movies, TV shows, and commercials would end up on the “cutting room floor” as sections of film were edited out of the production. Nowadays, every “take” is kept and possibly re-used in the bloopers edition or the director’s cut release.
2013 Security Products Magazine Product Of The Year Awards
Security Products 2013 New Product of the Year Award Winners Announced DALLAS, August 26, 2013 – Security Products magazine, the only integrated product and technology magazine reaching the entire security market, announced the winners of its 2013 New Product of the Year Award today. The Security Products New Product of the Year Award honors the […]