Video analytics

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: [http://visionsystems.icxt.com/ ICX Vision Systems (Formerly PureTech Systems)] [http://www.aimetis.com Aimetis] [http://www.mate.co.il Mate] , [http://www.avd.ie Alpha Vision Design] , [http://www.Sightlogix.com SightLogix] , [http://www.cernium.com Cernium] ,intelliview AgentVi, IPSOTEK, [http://www.ivisiotech.com IVISIOTECH] , [http://www.objectvideo.com ObjectVideo] , Pivotal Vision (ScadaCm), [http://www.intellio.eu Intellio] , [http://www.cieffe.com Cieffe] , Vidient, Ioimage, [http://www.videoiq.net VideoIQ] , TEB [http://www.teb-online.com TEB] and [http://www.keeneo.com 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.

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.Fact|date=November 2007 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".Facts|date=November 2007 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)Facts|date=November 2007 [http://www.ist-caretaker.org]

Patents

(WO/2008/092255) METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TASK-BASED VIDEO ANALYTICS PROCESSING [http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008092255&IA=CA2008000189&DISPLAY=DESC]

WO/2008/012631) EVENT DETECTION METHOD AND VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM USING SAID METHOD [http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008012631]

WO/2007/140609) METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS, ENHANCEMENT AND DISPLAY FOR COMMUNICATION [http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2007140609]

Method for scene modeling and change detection [http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT7336803&id=QrqoAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd]

Product Evaluation Tools

Home Office Scientific Development Branch: Imagery library for intelligent detection systems (i-LIDS) [http://scienceandresearch.homeoffice.gov.uk/hosdb/cctv-imaging-technology/video-based-detection-systems/i-lids/]

Purchasable Market Research Reports

ABI Research: Video Surveillance Systems - Explosive Market Growth and New Market Opportunities [http://www.abiresearch.com/products/market_research/Video_Surveillance_Systems] Frost and Sullivan through MarketResearch.com [http://www.marketresearch.com/map/prod/1487605.html]

Standards

Open Systems Integration and Performance Standards - Digital Video Interface Data Model ANSI/SIA OSIPS-DVI-01:2008 [http://www.siaonline.org/standards/dv/dvi01_2008.pdf]

Proposal for Project to Develop A New or Revised Standard or Technical Report Revision of ANSI/SIA OSIPS DVI Standard to Further Define Video Analytics MessageFormats March 17, 2008 [http://www.siaonline.org/standards/dv/st-dv00_20080812_13_agenda.pdf]

See also

* [http://ipvideomarket.info/topics/VideoAnalytics Video Analytics News and Reviews]
* [http://ipvideomarket.info/review/show/129 Top 3 Problems Video Analytics]
* [http://www.sourcesecurity.com/news/articles/1661.html Demystifying video analytics] : Criteria to determine intelligence of video analytics solutions
* [http://www.sourcesecurity.com/news/articles/967.html Understanding limitations of video analytics]