Video analytics
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Video Analytics is a technology that is used to analyze video for specific data, behavior, objects or attitude. It has a wide range of applications including safety and security. The software algorithms run on processors inside a computer or on an embedded computer platform in video cameras, recording devices, or specialized video processing units. Video analytics algorithms together are integrated with video and called Intelligent Video Software systems that run on embedded computers. The technology can evaluate the contents of video to determine specified information about the content of that video.
Examples of video analytics applications include: counting the number of pedestrians entering a door or geographic region, determining the location, speed and direction of travel, identifying suspicious movement of people or assets, license plate identification or evaluating how long a package has been left in an area.
Commercial applications of this technology are increasingly widespread in the General Security, Government, Retail, Transport and Financial Services Sectors. Leading providers in the General Security and Government sectors include: MateSightLogix, intelliview AgentVi, IPSOTEK, IVISIOTECH, ObjectVideo, Cernium, Pivotal Vision (ScadaCam), Vidient,ioimage, TEB TEB and Keeneo.
Video Analytics is moving very fast and now such technology is available as standard in some Digital Video Recorder. Video Motion detection is considered to be video analytics and such feature is commonly use to optimize the data storage in Video Digital Recorder.
[edit] Academic Research
Significant academic research into the field is ongoing at LIVS at the University of Calgary, University of Kingston, Georgia Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.[citation needed] Although many people think that The academic term for video analytics is typically "machine vision." Other terms in commercial use are "Video Content Analysis" and "Smart CCTV".[citations needed] but the truth is machine vision and computer vision where used when the machine i.e. computer mimics a human and understand image out of a sequence of images. Video Analytics is the science of analyzing video to detect and determine temporal events not based on single image
A body of funded research projects exists under the names:
- "PRISMATICA" (Pro-active Integrated Systems for Security Management by Technological Institutional and Communications)
- "CROMATICA" (CROwd MAnagement with Telematic Imaging and Communications Assistance)
- "ADVISOR" (Annotated Digital Video for Surveillance and Optimised Retrieval)
- "CARETAKER" (Content Analysis and REtrieval Technologies to Apply Knowledge Extraction to massive Recording)[citations needed]
