Video Analytics

Fortunately for both security integrators and their end-user customers, technology providers are collaborating like never before to bring amazing capabilities into the marketplace. At the top of that list is video analytics, which is finally working out the bugs, kinks and false alarms to deliver on its extremely high potential.

One of the foremost challenges of video analytics has been achieving a high detection rate while keeping false alarms to a minimum. Learn how recent innovations such as object classification that discriminates among moving things are allowing this surveillance technology to finally move further into mainstream security applications. 

Systems integrators that can leverage analytics-enabled applications to solve retail operational issues are finding success in an oftentimes frugal market sector. Stemming loss prevention, migrating analog systems to IP, and demonstrating ROI are other significant market drivers.

ObjectVideo has appointed former Tyco executive Warren Brown as president.

Video analytics technology has come a long way. Over the past 10 years, it has evolved at a rate similar to other technologies, and is now in its fourth generation. Some applications now also have the ability to detect tampering, and can automatically adjust the visual parameters of enabled video cameras according to individual scene characteristics to ensure optimal brightness and contrast for video viewing and recording.

Video analytics has been both one of the most exciting and maligned technologies applied to security applications. Find out why its promise of automatically detecting events and generating alerts based on surveillance images is no longer fraught with shortcomings.

Using ObjectVideo technology, this video shows a shopper in a retail store standing for longer than a prescribed period of time in front of a special promotional end cap display. Business intelligence gathered from this view helps store management determine which display locations attract the most traffic, enabling them to more empirically set promotional pricing for product suppliers.

In this video, Dr. Bob Banerjee, senior director of training and development for NICE Systems Security Division reviews video analytics footage.

Let's face it, electronic security has not always been the most technologically progressive industry. But that mentality and resistance to change has made perfect sense ...

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