Imagine trying to find things you like on the Internet without a search engine. It is a simple concept that highlights the importance of such tools. Without a search engine, you would literally have to read every page on the internet one-by-one until something interesting came up. It would take an unfathomable amount of time and you would inevitably miss a huge number of things you would have liked to find. In fact, web pages are probably created faster than you could even check them, essentially making the task impossible. That is similar to the state of video surveillance, without recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI). Before AI video analytics we had people in front of screens. Usually one person in front of many screens attempting to simultaneously watch each screen looking for anything that might represent a security concern. An explosion or a disruption in a crowd of people may be fairly straightforward to […]