Security

How Advanced are Video Analytics Now?

The general consensus in the Physical Security and Video Surveillance industry is that the benefits of Analytics were previously oversold, no doubt leaving a sour taste in the mouth of some buyers. So as an industry we are entitled to keep asking how advanced Video Analytics are now? The simple truth is that intelligent computer vision is an immensely difficult challenge to take on. But with video cameras now delivering better image quality, enhanced processing power and improved software algorithms, can we expect cameras to start delivering “real” intelligence? It was in 2011, when the IBM Watson computer won the US game show Jeopardy, beating 2 human champions. For that, IBM developed DeepQA, a massively parallel software architecture that examined natural language content in both the clues set by Jeopardy and in Watson’s own stored data, along with looking into the structured information it holds. It took about 20 researchers 3 years to reach a […]

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