The world's longest-running news television program, BBC Panorama, prominently featured research from IPVM in its investigation into AI including critical examinations of Dahua, Hikvision, and Huawei. Watch the 3-minute clip featuring IPVM...
By Conor Healy and Charles Rollet - 16 days ago
A new bill places export controls on US technology which enables human rights abuses abroad, potentially threatening sales of US firms like NVIDIA, Intel, Seagate, and Western Digital which produce tech used by PRC China authorities. The...
By Conor Healy and Charles Rollet - 17 days ago
Axxon's Behavior Analytics claim to "Recognize potentially dangerous situations by detecting specific human postures" and their facial recognition is "free of recognition issues which were typical" in past generations. But how do they work in the...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 18 days ago
The BBC, CNN, the Financial Times, and 60 Minutes recently cited the lack of legislative framework and gender/racial bias as among the problems with facial recognition technology. IPVM analyzes recent reports from within the last month by the...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 18 days ago
Traces AI says they have developed a Face Recognition alternative for forensic search and reidentification without using faces and backed by Y Combinator. IPVM spoke with one of the co-founders to learn more about the company and its...
By Zach Segal - 26 days ago
NtechLab is best known for their 100k+ camera face recognition deployment in Moscow and now discontinued Clearview AI-like FindFace app that scraped Russian social media. IPVM talks with NtechLabs founder and head of R&D Artem Kuharenko...
By Zach Segal - about 1 month ago
Paravision has raised $23m from access control from VCs and access giant HID. IPVM examines the funding and future of Paravision including responses from the company themselves.
By Zach Segal - about 1 month ago
RealNetworks' SAFR entered the security market giving away their analytics to schools for free. But how does their face rec compare to enterprise-focused competitors like Anyvision or BriefCam? We tested SAFR Inside on Axis' deep learning...
By Rob Kilpatrick - about 1 month ago
This directory provides a list of video surveillance startups to help you see and research what companies are new or not yet broadly known. 2021 State of Video Surveillance Startups In the past year, the number and funding of video...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
A new 2021 academic study on the global expansion of CCTV has found a 10% decrease in crime in areas using video surveillance vs those that do not. But how trustworthy is that number? Inside this note, IPVM examines the study published...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 1 month ago
The EU has released a proposal for how it plans to regulate AI, directly impacting certain video surveillance technologies but exempting many products through a major loophole. "High-risk" AI like facial recognition will require numerous...
By Zach Segal - about 1 month ago
This 25-page guide provides a reference for video surveillance analytic performance. Video surveillance has a wide range of hardware and software analytic offerings, which is complex to determine which are strong performers or have issues. In...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
Hikvision has received the most global news reporting of any video surveillance company, ever, ranging from the WSJ, the Financial Times, Reuters, the NY Times, SCMP and more. This directory catalogs and links to 100+ of them. April...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
VisionLabs is a Russian-founded, Netherlands HQ computer vision developer most known for its facial recognition. IPVM spoke with VisionLabs to learn more about their business, their technology, and their expansion into hardware and other...
By Zach Segal - about 2 months ago
IPVM tested Avigilon Appearance Alerts Version 7.4 in December 2019, noting it lacked key features included in competitors Anyvision and Briefcam. Now, the new version 7.12 introduces enhancements in those areas. The new features IPVM tested...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 2 months ago
Video surveillance manufacturers often tout "high accuracy" analytics as a key marketing focus, typically with 90%+ values. But how do they reach those figures? In this report we break down and examine each of the following: Ground Truth...
By IPVM Team - 2 months ago
This 16-page guide explains the fundamentals of license plate recognize / automatic number plate recognition. Inside we cover: Traditional OCR LPR OCR Visually Equivalent Characters Deep Learning LPR Plate Datasets Accuracy Claim...
By Sean Patton - 3 months ago
This is, by far, the best training on video analytics in video surveillance, based on IPVM's current 2021 testing and research. If you want to understand how AI and video analytics work in video surveillance, this course is a must. The course...
By Donald Maye - 3 months ago
There has been increasing debate and scrutiny about facial recognition in the EU and US, and similar issues are emerging in China as the state media (CCTV) recently singled out illegal facial recognition for commercial use. In this report,...
By Isabella Cheng - 3 months ago
Anyvision had a traumatic 2020 with massive layoffs and international scrutiny, but in September the company raised $43 million and in October they announced a new CEO, Avi Golan, who had previously worked at Softbank and Google. Now that...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
AI is improving analytics, but which cameras are the best and worst? In this report, we compare and contrast 30 different camera analytics from 14 manufacturers from our tests: Ava Aware Avigilon H5A Analytic Cameras Avigilon H4A Analytic...
By Ethan Ace, Rob Kilpatrick, and Sean Patton - 3 months ago
This guide explains the fundamentals of facial recognition. Inside we cover: The Use of Datasets in Facial Recognition Dataset Creation Methods Common Dataset Problems Prominent Public Datasets Changes in Public Datasets Architectures...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
Video analytics is a major differentiator in video surveillance, but because of the different marketing terms, names, and features, understanding how they work and differ is difficult. In this 30+ page guide, we teach the...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
Few academic researchers study video surveillance / CCTV. One of the most notable is John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York associate professor Dr. Eric Piza who we interviewed. Inside this interview, Dr. Piza...
By Robert Wren Gordon and Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
Person, face, and vehicle detection are the most commonly offered video analytics, but understanding how they work and what challenges can break them is not easy. In this guide we examine: How to tell how well an analytics provider's...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
