Imaging system cuts fear in the darkness
Don't be afraid if you have to stay alone in an isolated car park at night as you can now be sure that you will be protected by an intelligent security guard.
With a new technology development, called Image Recognition System, if there is any suspicious behaviour around the area, the system can detect it and send an alert to surveillance centre, allowing officials to prepare for any incident. Being developed by a two-year-old technology company, Digital Associates, the system is designed to provide a complete event history that can be used for both security and business purposes. The company's managing director Thanarat Leetrakul said that Image Recognition System system was a blend of five recognition software programs - behaviour recognition, face recognition, traffic recognition, object recognition, and optical character recognition - integrated into existing closed circuit television security systems to make intelligent video surveillance analysis. The company has also developed image analysis software, intelligent recognition software and an identity validation system to enhance the imaging recognition system. He said the blend of five recognition systems into a remote video surveillance system would detect suspicious behaviour and intrusions. It detects an intruder based on behaviour patterns pre-selected by the end user, and alerts a remote surveillance centre. It enables users to set flexible operation policies such as detection conditions, intruder size, and behaviour. The platform for recognising behaviour involves either isolated individuals, groups of people or crowds, in the context of visual monitoring of street scenes using multiple cameras. The deployment uses high-quality video distribution technology and communicates over IP networks. It can conduct concentrated surveillance for large, wide and multi-location areas efficiently. "This kind of system is improves surveillance quality and efficiency. One of our customers is a local university using it to improve surveillance for security purposes," said Thanarat. He said the system his company developed is quite new for the local market, but it part of a global trend. The development is 80-per-cent complete and the company expects to launch the entire system before the end of this year.
Asina Pornwasin The Nation
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