The IBM Smart Surveillance System

The increasing need for sophisticated surveillance systems and the move to digital surveillance infrastructure has transformed surveillance into a large scale data analysis and management challenge. Smart surveillance systems use automatic image understanding techniques to extract information from the surveillance data. While the majority of the research and commercial systems have focused on the information extraction aspect of the challenge, very few systems have explored the use of extracted information in the search, retrieval, data management and investigation context. The IBM Smart Surveillance Systems demonstrates the capabilities of a fully integrated smart surveillance system, where the index data generated by the analytics is made searchable in real time.