Video Analytics

Video Content Analysis

Among the tools available for IPVS systems are software programs that allow for Video Analytics, also known as Video Content Analysis (VCA). These applications, which are embedded plug-ins for third-party edge devices (cameras) and video management systems, give your video network “intelligence” by enabling these kinds of tasks:

  • Providing real-time analysis for immediate detection of events of interest
  • Extracting events and data from pre-recorded video
  • Generating alerts on perimeter breaches
  • Greatly accelerating search/review times

These Video Analytics tools essentially eliminate the need for operators to watch a wall of monitors on a 24/7 basis. They also reduce the lengthy process of manually reviewing hours or days of video in hopes of spotting something relevant. Ojo Technology has partnered with the following leading providers of Video Analytics software:

BriefCam – Developed in Israel, this is a Video Synopsis™ system for rapid reviewing, analyzing and indexing of video camera content. Receiving real-time feeds from your video management software, BriefCam’s VS Online server processes the video to produce a database that can yield a video summary on demand. Thus, users receive a “brief” that enables the rapid review of events for evidence discovery. Using Video Synopsis, a reviewer can summarize a day of surveillance camera footage into a video clip as short as one minute, leading to a significant reduction in the effort and expense required to analyze stored video. Among the capabilities: Events that occurred at different times can be displayed simultaneously.

ObjectVideo – Founded in 1998 by scientists and program managers from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ObjectVideo provides cutting-edge computer vision software. This application converts video into data in order to detect, classify and track objects of interest according to user-defined rules. Users receive alerts in real time, allowing them to proactively address threats and other events of importance within their environment, as well as to forensically review video data for more effective operational planning. With ObjectVideo OnBoard, a wide number of edge and IT devices can be enabled to perform video analysis, using the processors within the devices. Thus, cameras can become “smart.”

Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi) – Produced in Israel, this video analytics software, which can be integrated into existing or new surveillance networks, offers an extensive set of intuitive search parameters and capabilities. The main functions are: (1) forensic search for particular events or objects in a specified group of cameras and within a distinct time frame, (2) statistical analysis reports from counting people or vehicles for a specified group of cameras within a distinct time frame, (3) motion path analysis that produces a graphical presentation of all motion paths in a scene, with immediate access to the video segment relating to each path, and (4) a video summary that allows debriefing of multiple search results through one condensed clip.

In summary, these Video Analytics tools can provide intelligent motion detection, human/vehicle differentiation, loitering detection, exact perimeter violation, direction and speed detection, leader-follower motion tracking, object taken, object left behind and programmable event rules.

OJO TECHNOLOGY CAN OFFER THESE PRODUCTS AND PROVIDE ADVICE AND TRAINING ON THEIR DEPLOYMENT