Transformation of Video: From Supplying Only Images to Delivering Valuable Data
Uri Guterman, Head of Product & Marketing, Hanwha Vision Europe talks about how video became much more than just images. It is that delivering vulnerable data becomes a key element in shaping the industry in the future. For our 20 year jubilee, GIT SECURITY has asked leaders in the industry to give an outlook.
What do you think was the greatest game-changing technology for the security industry in the last 20 years if you had to choose one?
Uri Guterman: While the advent of the IP camera was certainly game-changing and allowed so much more to be done with video, it emerged a little outside that twenty-year period. Certainly, the development of new lens technology alongside faster and more powerful chips since then has increased the quality of the images captured by video cameras, but the more recent introduction of AI – and its implementation ‘at the edge’, in particular – has opened up a world where the visual information captured on video can be extracted, examined and leveraged. The transformation of video from supplying only images to delivering valuable data has the potential to transform our industry beyond all recognition.
“The next ten years will be dominated by AI applications.” Why would you agree or disagree?
Uri Guterman: It is no exaggeration to say that over the next decade, AI will transform the world around us, the way we interact with technology, and what we can achieve using it. And while some uncertainty currently exists about how AI will fit into our lives, nowhere is its potential more immediately apparent than in video surveillance. Our industry is at the forefront of the practical implementation of AI. Already, cameras use built-in AI to alert users only to the incidents that genuinely require their attention, effectively eradicating false alarms and freeing them up to do more valuable work.
Hanwha Vision’s Road AI solution, meanwhile, identifies vehicle type, make and colour ‘out of the box’, giving town and city planners the ability to understand how and when roads are used and shift resources around accordingly or alert emergency services to broken down vehicles or spilt loads in the road.
AI makes all this, and much more, possible, and these types of applications, built on insights gleaned from visual information, will become commonplace in the next two years, let alone ten.
Your company will have a great impact on the industry in the next ten years because…?
Uri Guterman: If AI is set to transform video technology, then Hanwha Vision’s impact on the industry in the next ten years is assured because, more than any manufacturer, it is leading the way in deploying AI ‘at the edge.’
Hanwha Vision is leading the drive towards AI in video by making it easier to deploy AI at scale without needing specialist implementation or lots of bandwidth. AI ‘at the edge’ offers the benefit of deep learning-based object detection and classification with ease of use, low cost of ownership and fewer false alarms.
The industry is undergoing massive change, with conventional physical security solutions like video surveillance being expanded thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), delivering new insights into the efficiency of business processes. What’s more, over the next ten years, data collected by IoT sensors will combine with video and be analysed by edge AI to predict future events and proactively prevent security incidents. It has never been a more exciting time to be in the security industry!
