Every January, Las Vegas hosts the Consumer Electronics Show, one of the biggest electronics shows in the world. Five years ago, vendors treated attendees to such innovations as megapixel cameras, next-generation DVD players that used the latest H.264 ...
Over the last five issues, this column covered a broad range of topics centering on intelligent video from system architecture to audio intelligence and the algorithms that enable various video analytics. While video intelligence and, to a certain ...
The previous column in this series (see ) discussed pixel-based intelligent video (IV) applications that send alerts to security personnel when a camera detects a significant number of pixel changes in the view window. This month's article focuses on ...
In the previous two months, I devoted columns to two broad categories of IV applications: pixel-based video intelligence and object-based video intelligence. (See August's issue for Applying Pixel-Based Intelligent Video and September's issue for ...
There are a number of intelligent video (IV) applications available today to assist security personnel in analyzing surveillance video. These video analytics extract and process information from a video frame in different ways and apply varying ...
The movie industry introduced its first "talkie" back in 1927. Yet video surveillance, for the most part, has remained oddly silent. Given that what we hear adds as much to our understanding of events as the images we see, the lack of an audio ...
Short of catastrophic disaster, most networks today deliver between 99.99 percent and 99.9999 percent availability from less than one hour of downtime a year to less than one minute of downtime a year. But even the most robust network needs downtime ...
H.264, the newest video compression technology, presents a huge step forward for many industries. Without compromising image quality, an H.264 encoder can reduce the size of a digital video file by more than 80 percent compared with Motion JPEG ...
Seeing the difference: When and how to use megapixel surveillance Regular SIW columnist Fredrik Nilsson, who serves as general manager of Axis Communications, will be contributing a number of "Eye on Video" segments examining current technology ...
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