AN INTRODUCTION
TO BEHAVIORAL
ANALYTICS
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The viisights Advantage.......................................................... 1
Chapter 2: Smart Cities............................................................................... 7
CHAPTER 1
THE VIISIGHTS
ADVANTAGE
THE VIISIGHTS ADVANTAGE CHAPTER 1
Overview
New and emerging security and health safety challenges demand new solutions
to best protect people, property, and assets. viisights’ innovative behavioral
analytics leverage the latest advancements in imaging technology to deliver new
benchmarks in video intelligence that transcend traditional real-time monitoring
and forensics by providing actionable intelligence to minimize liabilities and
prevent incidents from escalating.
Why We’re Different
Unlike conventional video analytics that use old pixel technology to recognize
static objects and classify objects, viisights behavioral analytics employ Artificial
Intelligence (AI) to automatically detect, analyze, and understand actions and
events. This unprecedented level of video understanding is based on a unique
implementation of deep neural networks capable of analyzing and defining
specific activities using video streams from conventional security cameras.
viisights’ behavioral analytics recognize the
behavior of diverse objects and their relevant
contexts. For example, an individual moving
back and forth in a predefined area may simply
be loitering or waiting for a bus. However, if the
individual is hovering in the vicinity of an ATM,
this may indicate a potential problem. viisights
automatically identifies the location as a bus stop
or ATM – without any manual setup or calibration.
The ability to distinguish a potentially dangerous
situation from a normal occurrence provides
security professionals with the unique ability to
initiate fast and appropriate responses to minimize
or even prevent incidents from occurring.
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Other common examples of behavior analysis
include the ability to differentiate between individuals
embracing or fighting, a parade or a riot, or a person
falling versus tying their shoelaces.
viisights integration of deep neural networks drive
the holistic analysis of multiple dimensions of
understanding to provide a unique assessment of
otherwise undetectable events. These intelligent
analytics solutions also continually learn from video
streams to define and prioritize dynamic situations with
unique signatures that change over time. This machine learning approach to
event detection and analysis ensures that viisights behavioral analytics are both
scalable and future-proofed.
A new benchmark in video technology, viisights
behavioral analytics deliver unprecedented
levels of intelligence using commodity NVIDIA
GPU processors in a unique system architecture
that significantly reduces the hardware footprint
required for advanced analysis in near real time.
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viisights unique capability to transform video streams into actionable insights
provides users with myriad benefits, including the ability to…
￭ A
utomatically detect and predict events of interest
such as violent and suspicious activity, crowd
behavior, perimeter (protection) violations, public
health violations (eg. COVID-19), traffic congestion
and accidents, environmental and personal safety
threats, and occupancy and mobility counting.
￭ Improve security monitoring accuracy and
efficiency by eliminating the need for personnel to
monitor large numbers of cameras simultaneously.
￭ R
educe personnel cost associated with monitoring
large security systems and responding to
false alarms.
￭ Improve SOC/security personnel performance by allowing them to focus
on real events of interest and provide additional services.
￭ Improve overall safety and security through automatic detection, analysis,
and reporting.
￭ D
eliver implementation versatility in the Cloud or locally for one, some, or
all networked security cameras.
Privacy Protection
The heightened level of situational awareness and risk
mitigation provided by viisights solutions is further
complemented by the inherent ability of their behavioral
analytics to ensure personal privacy protections. This is
accomplished by analyzing the general behavior patterns
of individuals, groups, vehicles, and traffic-flows without
identifying faces or license plates. For high-security or
law enforcement applications that require identification
and authentication functionality, viisights behavioral
analytics can be integrated into systems employing face
and license plate recognition solutions.
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Key Advantages
Actionable Intelligence
viisights patented video understanding technology employs
cognitive computing and holistic video analytics to understand
video more like humans do and deliver intelligence in real-
time. A breakthrough in video analytics technology, viisights
provides actionable intelligence on the events that matter
most to help minimize potentially dangerous situations, reduce
liabilities, mitigate risks, and help maintain compliance to new
and emerging mandates.
viisights provides actionable intelligence
on the events that matter most.
Autonomous Operation
viisights provides the ability to not only automatically detect
in real-time what has happened, but to predict events before
they occur based on preliminary behavioral patterns. This
autonomous functionality enables the user to operate with the
goal of preventing events of interest by responding before a
scenario escalates.
False Positive Reduction
viisights unique video understanding technology makes critical
decisions based on a sequence of images in a sliding window
of up to 3 seconds – not a single image. This technique
dramatically reduces false positives and increases the recall
rate, which increases personnel and SOC efficiencies while
reducing costs.
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Tangible ROI
In addition to cost-reductions associated with false alarm
reduction, viisights behavioral analytics offer a low cost of
entry by leveraging existing video camera feeds. The analytics
software solution supports two configurations:
1. M
aximizing server utilization – maximum streams
per server.
2. Near edge architecture – limited number of streams
for low energy consumption device.
viisights behavioral analytics offer
a low cost of entry by leveraging
existing video camera feeds.
viisights behavioral analytics are
ideal for a wide range of use cases
including safe and smart cities,
transportation hubs, banking and
financial institutions, corporate
campuses, and education campuses.
Learn more by visiting
viisights.com/solutions
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CHAPTER 2
SMART CITIES
SMART CITIES CHAPTER 2
Intelligent Behavioral Analytics
Make Smart Cities… Smarter
Cities are increasingly employing multiple
technologies to collect data for a wide range of
applications such as law enforcement, traffic
monitoring, as well as resources and services
management. With the continued proliferation of
the IoT and new edge devices, data is collected
from myriad sources, including video cameras,
which continue to be one of the most efficient and
effective ways to achieve wide area coverage. In
fact, many cities around the world have followed
the early examples set by cities like London in
the UK and Dallas, Texas in the U.S. by deploying
hundreds if not thousands of cameras across their municipalities. When installed
and maintained properly, such video systems greatly enhance situational
awareness by providing coverage of areas that would otherwise require on-site
personnel to effectively observe events and behaviors.
The downside is that large numbers of video cameras require substantial
personnel resources to effectively monitor live events, interpret situations
and initiate appropriate action. This is both an expensive and error prone
proposition due to numerous factors such as personnel monitoring fatigue and
commonplace workplace distractions that can be caused by innocuous daily
behaviors such as getting coffee or using the restroom.
viisights innovative behavioral analytics
resolves these issues, effectively making
smart cities even smarter by automatically
detecting events of interest.
A new benchmark in intelligent video
technology, viisights behavioral analytics
are built on a foundation of advanced
Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that
understand the content in real-time, instead
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of simply classifying objects. This technology
provides actionable intelligence to help prevent
incidents from escalating and minimize
liabilities, dramatically increasing security and
safety. viisights unparalleled data analysis
capabilities also transcend conventional
applications for real-time video monitoring and
forensics to deliver true business intelligence.
viisights behavioral analytics accomplish this
by “learning” to distinguish between common
occurrences like an individual tying a shoelace
versus falling to the ground, two people embracing
as opposed to fighting, gatherings of people
walking down the street versus rioting, or even
determine if there has been a traffic accident.
Conventional video cameras and analytics simply
cannot make human-like distinctions that viisights
behavioral analytics deliver.
viisights unparalleled data analysis
capabilities also transcend
conventional applications for real-time
video monitoring and forensics to deliver
true business intelligence.
Equally important, viisights innovative behavioral
analytics allow municipalities to easily and
cost-effectively leverage their existing capital
investment in video camera systems to improve
overall safety, security, and the quality of life
of their constituents. The low cost of entry
provides city officials with a win-win proposition
and a long-term solution with a tangible and
significant Return on Investment (ROI).
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The numerous benefits provided by viisights behavioral analytics include…
Automatically Identify Events of Interest
Whether applied to one or a thousand video streams,
viisights behavioral analytics never blink, ensuring that
events of interest and potentially threatening situations
never go undetected, and city operations run smoother.
Authorized personnel and system operators are notified
as soon as an event of interest is detected, including:
￭ Violent activity
￭ C
rowd development, large crowd size, or
specific crowd behavior
￭ Trespassing in restricted areas and zones
￭ S
uspicious activity such as contextual loitering, vandalism, falling,
and weapon detection
￭ Traffic buildup, collisions, or infractions
￭ Environmental safety hazards like smoke and fire
￭ Waste management and control issues
Reduce and Prevent Overall Crime
Since most crimes are conducted beyond the eyes
of law enforcement, automatic real-time detection of
suspicious or criminal activity can initiate immediate
remedial action to help thwart criminal activities and
prevent domestic incidents from escalating. Public
awareness of this advanced application of technology
in their community can also prove to be a powerful
deterrent to criminal and vandal behavior.
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Improve Emergency Response Times
As soon as a defined event of interest or an imminent
threatening situation is detected, viisights behavioral
analytics notifies predetermined personnel or system
operators to initiate action. This unique ability to detect
situations and dispatch first responders in all but real-
time greatly reduces response times to crime scenes,
accidents, environmental spills, flash floods, fires and
more, which can effectively save lives.
Improve Pedestrian and Vehicular
Mobility and Safety
Whether you’re in Los Angeles, London or Luanda,
driving across town or crossing the street can be a
dangerous endeavor at any time of day. viisights
behavioral analytics can help improve pedestrian
and vehicular safety by instantly detecting
potentially dangerous situations, traffic delays
and accidents, and notifying the appropriate
responders to take action.
viisights unique video understanding technology
dramatically reduces false positives
Enhance Citizens’ Quality of Life Through
Better Resource Utilization
Nothing makes constituents happier than a clean and
safe city. The ability to automatic detect accumulating
litter or overflowing trash receptacles, the need for street
sweeping or snow removal, loitering, or individuals
in need of social assistance allows authorities to
immediately initiate remedial actions.
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Reduce False Alerts
viisights unique video understanding technology
dramatically reduces false positives, which
increases personnel efficiencies and overall safety
and security while reducing operating costs.
Eliminating nuisance alarms and investigations
allows personnel to focus on real events of
interest and other services they otherwise would
not have the time to provide.
Leverage Existing Investments in
Video Technology
viisights behavioral analytics offer a low cost
of entry by leveraging your municipality’s
existing investment in video cameras and
technology. The innovative behavioral
analytics solution also offers versatile
configuration options to maximize server
utilization with near edge architecture.
A Scalable, Future-proofed Solution
Whether your budget allows you to implement
one camera or a thousand, viisights behavioral
analytics are infinitely scalable. Add camera feeds
to specific locations when you need them, and at
your own pace.
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Case Histories
Ashdod, Israel Provides Greater Safety and
Security with viisights’ AI-driven Behavioral
Understanding Technology
viisights has deployed a smart city traffic monitoring system
in Ashdod, Israel to quickly address events of interest such as
accidents, disturbances to traffic (for example, vehicles stopping in a
junction or on a sidewalk), road hazards (for example, people getting
in and out of vehicles in dangerous areas) and to monitor traffic
flows and report on various statistics.
Read More
León, Mexico Improves Urban Mobility and
Safety with viisights’ AI-driven Behavioral
Understanding Technology
viisights has been chosen by the city of León, Mexico to improve
city safety, security, and help prevent the spread of the novel
coronavirus virus. The unique behavioral analytics solution is
being implemented to identify suspicious behavior, violent activity,
weapon detection, crowd behaviors, perimeter protection, traffic
monitoring, and environmental changes such as smoke or fire.
Read More
THANK YOU
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