Video Surveillance System That Reasons Like a Human 143
An anonymous reader writes "BRS Labs has created a technology it calls Behavioral Analytics which uses cognitive reasoning, much like the human brain, to process visual data and to identify criminal and terroristic activities. Built on a framework of cognitive learning engines and computer vision, AISight, provides an automated and scalable surveillance solution that analyzes behavioral patterns, activities and scene content without the need for human training, setup, or programming."
Proof? (Score:3, Interesting)
Source or it doesn't work.
Bit more info - can it be as good as humans? (Score:5, Interesting)
"The system takes the input from existing video security cameras (no need to change equipment); recognizes and identifies the objects in each frame and passes that data to its Machine Learning Engine. There, the system 'learns' what activity is normal for each unique area viewed by each camera. It then stores these LEARNED memories, much the same way the human brain does, and refers back to them with any and all future activities observed by the camera. If any behavior falls outside of the norm, alerts are generated."
Sounds impressive, but will the algorithms be sophisticated enough to watch grass grow [watching-grass-grow.com] and realize that it's normal behavior for the garbage truck to come by weekly [watching-grass-grow.com]
Hopefully not like humans (Score:4, Interesting)
Interestingly in Europe after a series of dreadful incidents on live video, this is finally being debated on the eve of general elections: http://www.piratenpartei.de/node/920/29268#comment-29268 [piratenpartei.de] - as at the other end of the line, in a situation room (that may be on the next floor or station, and yet too) far away, officers will have to watch events unfold and wish in vain to finally be out there with a gun again (or have sufficient forces to dispatch), e.g. to stop that attacker they can only videotape and helplessly watch wreak havoc on screen.
Re:Bit more info - can it be as good as humans? (Score:3, Interesting)
No way that it's as complex as that. My guess is that it gets used to linear motion like cars driving by and develops a tolerance for humans walking by on the way to work, but when there's lots of irregular motion in different directions (ie not just from one side of the frame to the other) there's a good chance something unusual is happening.
Your system lacks the element of "no human training" mentioned in the summary