Alexander Belyaev,
Technical Director at NNTC
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being implemented
into video surveillance systems in a bid to
tackle crime and help reduce roadside deaths
and traffic jams. Here, Alexander Belyaev,
Technical Director at NNTC, discusses
the importance of video surveillance with
biometric identification in the transport sector
when it comes to protecting the public.
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Today in big cities there are hardly any crowded
areas left without standard video cameras
and thus video surveillance systems. They
help to monitor and investigate incidents but,
unfortunately, play little to no role in preventing
them. This is why for the past several years
we have seen a booming development of
video analytics solutions which are capable of
capturing and identifying a car in traffic flow or
an individual in a crowd, as well as their features
and behavioural patterns.
By 2019, facial recognition and video analytics
technology became more sophisticated and
reliable for its industrial applications. You can
now call it ‘person recognition’ as it can also
recognise the way of walking and clothes worn.
According to the research company
MarketsandMarkets, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
technology is expected to exceed US$35 billion
in revenue in the global security market by 2024.
One of the top AI use cases is related to video
surveillance systems with computer vision. The
UAE takes active steps towards the integration
of AI into Smart City solutions. For example,
Dubai is working on the ‘Oyoon’ (‘Eyes’) project,
AI-assisted video surveillance designed to tackle
crime in the city and help reduce roadside
deaths and traffic jams.
Video surveillance systems powered by biometric
identification are experiencing tremendous
growth, as it is a technology that can identify
a person by checking multiple parameters and
finding a match across hundreds of thousands of
images within various security-related agencies’
databases. In addition, such systems
can serve many other purposes.
Financial institutions leverage
biometrics for customer authentication,
while retailers use it to offer
personalised ads. Furthermore, there is
no substitute for this technology when
it comes to public safety. For example,
people on the wanted list can be found
among thousands of passengers at
the airport or at the train station in real
time. Many countries make exceptions
in their legislation for biometric data
processing consent requirements
when the matters of transport security,
counter-terrorism and search for
criminals are concerned.
By 2019, facial
recognition and
video analytics
technology became
more sophisticated
and reliable for
its industrial
applications.
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