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Marketing *****
***** ** ********'* ********* video.

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- ***** ** **** ******* size *********** (******** *** acknowledged **** *** *** yet ********* **** ** is) ** *** *** individual ** ******* **** 'any **** ** *****' will ****.
- ** **** ***** ****** 'all ** *******' ** all *** ******* *** analytic ******* ******** ****. This ****** ** ***** or **** ******-**** ** other *******.
Cameras (******** ******* ****) *** *** *** (****) *******
**** ******** ********'* ******** enabled ******* (*.*., *** H3A *** *** ** but *** *** ***-********* H3 ** *** ***** dome) *** ** ******** version ** ********'* *** (ACC6). *********, ** ***** party ******* *** *********.
Pricing *** ************
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************ ** ******** ** ~6 ******, ****** ** 2016, *** *** ******* is ***** ** ***********.
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***** *** * ***** improvements ******:
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Matching / ********* *** *** ****'*
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Competitors ********
***** ** **** ****** out ***** **** ****.
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**** ** ********'* **** recent ******* / **** demo **** * ***** ago:

Avigilon ****** - *** *** ********
*** ****** *** ******** is *******.
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*** **** *****, ** will ** **** **** until *** **** **** works ** **** *****. In *** ********, *** marketing ******.
Comments (52)
Itamar Kerbel
Strange Timing?
Probably to have something new for IFSEC....
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
IBM demo'd a similar capability 10 years ago at ISC West and still offers the solution today with Milestone and Genetec.
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/intelligent-video-analytics
If I remember correctly IBM held a few patents covering these capabilities.
IBM Smart Surveillance Research
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Michael Miller
ACC 6 should be a big deal and I am just guessing here but I would expect to see this at ASIS.
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Undisclosed Integrator #2
As an user/investigator, this seems to be a nice tool to have. Often subjects may disappear from one camera, and potentially show up on one of many cameras at a later time. And often subjects may stay inside the location for a long time, where you know the time of the incident, but are more interested in where and when the person entered the location.
I do what this tool does manually today. I just memorize a couple of garment colors and the shape of the person, and then start skimming video at 4-8 times regular play speed, one camera at a time. I feel that I get good it for time value by doing this. But it does take time. If I still don't get a hit when I'm done, I decide if I have more time to spend on the case, and maybe start a more rigorous search.
With a tool like this, the "skimming stage" will be done by, as I understand, searching trough meta information saved by the camera alongside the video. My guess is that the search will be fast, like the motion area search. If I got a hit with this tool, I saved loads of time. If I got no hit, I just do what I have done up to now, pretty much without a waste of time. I would not rely on this tool as a substitute for the real work. More like a shortcut that sometimes saves me time.
It's a perk, but I would not choose it over good image, unless image quality isn't very important. Like in an overview, or somewhere I would get a bad image anyway. So being locked to Avigilon just to get this feature on all cameras, would not be a priority.
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Octavio Villa R.
I believe Nice was doing something similar in the las ISCWest 2015 or 2014. Did you know / have tested it?
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Undisclosed End User #3
How do Ipsotek and Briefcam compare?
(Briefcam is more of a forensic tool, rather than live tag & trace, but it does offer support search for simiilar tagged obects)
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #4
Actually, both VidSys and Proximex have something similar.
VidSys has this feature called "VirtualTracker", which tracks an object (person, asset, vehcile etc.) in real time as the object moves across cameras in a networked security system. The video streams from multiple cameras are merged into a single screen view with on-screen controls.
Proximex has a tracking feature called "EZ Track", which provides very similar function as the "VirtualTracker" by VidSys.
What I am not sure about is how much video analytic is involved in both tracking features. And both of them seem to be server-based, embedded VMS functions in their PSIM platforms??
Anyone knows? thanks
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Undisclosed #5
Over the last couple of months I have been looking at the academic/industry research side. There is a large amount on this subject so it makes me wonder what can be claimed in Avigilon's patents that has not been done already in some way or another.
Someone mentioned IBM already. Look at the 2012 papers and before published by this IBM researcher...pretty similar objectives.
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_person_pubs.php?person=us-lisabr&t=1
Lisa Brown was the chair for the 3rd Workshop on Vehicle Retrieval in Surveillance (VRS 2015)
https://avss2015.org/workshop-track-1-traffic-and-vehicle-surveillance/
Some papers related to appearance search in this conference:
Invited Talk: Object-based Retrieval in Surveillance Video using Behavior, Events and Appearance
Anthony Hoogs, Kitware Inc.
Vehicle Identification Using Distance-based Appearance Model
Huang-Chia Shih and Hao-You Wang (Innovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence, Taiwan)
Appearance or patter matching has been around forever in compute vision...so I am wondering if Avigilon is patent touting, just to scare away others from implementing their own appearance-based analytics.
Would like to see IBM shaking things a little. I do remember reading IBM claim that they are near real-time.
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John Honovich
New Avigilon IFSEC marketing video showing appearance search in action with the same man in red:
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Undisclosed End User #3
Depending on your requirements - should you be wary of demos that track individuals in largely uncrowded scenes?
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Murat Altuev
Great to see that Avigilon is promoting forensic search analytics! I also believe, that it will 'transform video surveillance'. All we need is to inform customers about efficiency of this technology, create demand and prove it works! Next big thing is finally coming :)
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Undisclosed Integrator #7
I just shared this with a coworker; he responded with a YouTube video shared 9 days ago by Samsung SDS America. The video is sort of showcases their "complex event" and "visual" search functionalities using computer animation. I'm wondering if anyone has any actual hands-on experience with this platform, and how it compares to this latest Avigilon offering.
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Undisclosed End User #8
This application is very common in China, and several Chinese companies own similar products. It can search the exact same target ranked by comparison similarity, in different lighting condition and pose.
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Undisclosed End User #3
Using Facial Recognition to tag and track suspects, would seem to be a step up from tracking say human objects wearing red. Wouldn't it?
e.g.
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John Honovich
We did a post on Briefcam.
Also, Agent VI confirmed that they have the same feature, they call it 'Search For Similar Targets'. Here is their training video that shows it:
We plan to do a test on it.
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