3VR Significant Layoffs
3VR has laid off 15 employees, five of which are from its sales team, IPVM has learned. This leaves the company with a skeleton crew of three sales...
By Carlton Purvis - almost 11 years ago
3VR has laid off 15 employees, five of which are from its sales team, IPVM has learned. This leaves the company with a skeleton crew of three sales...
By Carlton Purvis - almost 11 years ago
Being able to track people across cameras and buildings simply by using cameras and analytics is something of a 'holy grail' for the surveillance...
By Carlton Purvis - almost 11 years ago
The Boston Bombings reaffirmed how far facial recognition needs to develop to be an effective surveillance tool. Despite the PR spin jobs, facial...
By John Honovich - about 11 years ago
Facial recognition vendors have been tripping over themselves to take credit, insert or claim the wonders of their offerings to identify the Boston...
By John Honovich - about 11 years ago
Real time facial surveillance is hard to do - accuracy issues, false alerts, cost and deployment complexity all conspire against it. This is why,...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
Biometric credentials are more than just fingerprints. A growing trend in access control readers is face recognition, but is it dependable enough...
By Brian Rhodes - over 11 years ago
Cold water is being thrown on renewed dreams of using facial recognition and demographic analysis. This time it is coming from an unlikely source...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
What if your recorder could automatically identify people as well as their gender and age? 3VR claims they can do this with their new demographics...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
Surveillance cameras are putting human rights at risk, blares a UK government official, a UK newspaper and the venerable BBC, creating an uproar of...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
A facial recognition tool was selected by ASIS as one of the 10 best new products at their 2012 show. While facial recognition has been around for...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
Few topics fan the flames of privacy activists like video surveillance. Depending on who you are, video cameras either dramatically improve...
By Brian Rhodes - over 11 years ago
Many have tried and many have failed at facial recognition. In the last few years, interest in and promotion of this technology has waned, as...
By Ethan Ace - about 12 years ago
FST21 has hit the industry with much fanfare, winning the 2011 ISC West Best In Show, surrounded by much hype and promises that the future of...
By Ethan Ace - about 12 years ago
The ACLU's surveillance concerns [link no longer available] are based on technology that does not work in the real world. Ironically, the ACLU is...
By John Honovich - about 13 years ago
In Fall 2010, Panasonic announced 4 new IP cameras as part of their emerging 'SmartHD' line. The new cameras include 2 bullets and 2 PTZs, adding...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
The December 2009 uproar over 'racist' facial recognition from HP demonstrates an important risk for real world video analytic deployments. For...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
Sagem Securite's Safran Group announced a new product that can significantly increase face finding and recognition performance. Called Face...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
FaceFirst is a recent entrant providing real-time suspect alerting using surveillance video of faces. The system is designed to use megapixel...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
The FBI comments on facial recognition: "The algorithms just do not exist to deliver the highly reliable verification required. This is even though...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
Appreciating the key factors in deploying video analytics and facial surveillance are critical for setting the right expectations and achieving...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
The last six months were rough for video analytics. Little good news and lots of public recognition of video analytic troubles. In our own recent...
By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago
While facial recognition for identification verification (like Driver's Licenses) continues to expand, the technology suffered a PR black eye this...
By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago
Recently, results from a facial recognition test for the Korean National Police were reported [link no longer available] widely by 3VR of...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
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