What is Intelligent Video Analytics?
Video Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the buzz in the world of video surveillance and security. Video surveillance systems produce massive amounts of video data. Most of the video never gets watched or reviewed, and it's impossible for a human to effectively watch so such a high volume of cameras. As a result, security incidents get missed and suspicious behavior is not detected in time to prevent incidents. These challenges and innovative technology have played a large part in the development of video analytics.
Intelligent Video Analytics
What is Intelligent Video Analytics?
Video analytics and AI for video surveillance utilizes algorithms and machine learning to monitor, manage and analyze large volumes of real-time video. Driven by AI and deep learning, video intelligence software analyzes audio, images and video from IP cameras to recognize humans, vehicles, objects, attributes and events. Video analytics are software applications that automatically generate descriptions of what is actually happening in the video (metadata), which can be used to list people, cars and other objects detected in the video stream. This information can then be used as the basis on which to perform actions, e.g. to decide if security staff should be notified, or if a recording should be started. Intelligent video analytics software allows you to effectively manage thousands of CCTV and IP cameras.
Types of Intelligent Video Analytics
There are many types of AI and video analytics for video surveillance, such as:
- Line crossing/intrusion detection.
- Motion detection.
- Subject counting (people/objects).
- People/object detection.
- LPR/ANPR (license plate recognition, automatic number plate recognition).
- Facial Analysis & Recognition
Examples of CCTV Intelligent Video Analysis for Retail
Retail and many other industries are discovering that video analytics can bring added value to their organizations. Today's modern retailers understand the value of analyzing in-store video surveillance footage beyond just crime deterrence and loss prevention. VXG allows you to leverage your video surveillance content with intelligent video analytics solutions to better understand consumer behavior, improve retention, and increase profits. Analytics such as people counting to track customer flows in retail stores, queue length monitoring at retail checkouts, and occupancy counters for waiting areas are just some of the ways video analytics are benefiting stakeholders beyond the field of pure surveillance.
Video analytics offers many benefits, such as:
- Cost savings - due to true cloud technology and micro-services architecture, less video is sent over the network reducing network load and storage requirements.
- Time savings - monitoring and searching for recorded video is easier and quicker, allowing operators to manage more cameras.
- Greater efficiency - automatically monitoring video for security incidents helps prevent crime, with intelligent video analytics significantly reducing false alarms.
- Creation of business value - integrating video data into in-house and 3rd party systems, such as POS data, headcounts from entrance cameras in retail stores means the surveillance system can contribute insights and new solutions for other business functions.
VXG Intelligent Video Analytics Technology
The open platform of VXG connects to any AI engine for powerful video analytics. The open API lets you integrate any in-house or 3rd party system, including AI engines. Currently we are connected to the leading brands like Amazon Rekognition, Google Vision Azure, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, and open source YOLO. With smart video analytics, you can transform your video into valuable business insights.
If there is a provider that you would like to use or a video analytic that you would like such as weapon detection, we can integrate this into our platform. Try VXG cloud video surveillance platform and intelligent video analytics technology for free today. Contact us here.
