To Infinity and Beyond

The potential applications of developing a technology like video content analytics is immense and still at a very young stage of development. Nowadays it is widely used in the field of entertainment, social security CCTV systems, surveillance analytics in mostly office premises, outdoor surveillance, education, health-care, sports and so on. It is a tool that can be designed to be incorporated to your daily life needs.

It holds such great promise enhancing the current applications of surveillance looking for a specific objective. It is an automated way of analysing video contents thus reducing manual human interface. The way video analytics works is mainly based on two main principles, which are

• Motion Detection, and
• Pattern Recognition

For example, one of its application could be in entertainment Casinos, where there is a lot of money involved and the risks of foul play are high. Video analytics can be used to monitor such fraudulent activities immediately, bringing into the attention of the security personnels.

Another growing application of it is in the field of sports, where it can be used to track the performances of athletes, thus enabling them to analyse their performance instantly as they practice.

In basketball,the Houston Rockets of the NBA, have recently spent $7 million, in creating their locker room incorporating video analytic screens and trial courts, enabling the players to improve their game by analysing their statistics. The video below gives a brief view of the new technology adopted.