A-Cut technology accelerates real-time video surveillance operations

IDIS A-Cut is designed to ensure that surveillance system end users have complete situational awareness and an enhanced rapid response tool, overcoming the challenge of having to locate crucial scenes featuring objects or people of interest among vast amounts of video footage.

A-Cut automatically extracts the best representative image of any target object or person, crops that image and then presents it in such a way that makes it easy for system operators to find.

By simply clicking on the cropped image, the operator is automatically taken to the precise moment in the recorded video stream when the object last appears.

With this user-friendly capability, A-Cut provides operators with immediate access to key events, significantly accelerating incident verification.

Each cropped image is indexed as a searchable visual moment, thereby allowing for the rapid identification of persons or objects of interest across video footage, as well as the tracking of movements, and enabling the quick formation of an accurate picture of a sequence of events.

The cropped images become even more powerful search tools when combined with IDIS AI Search functions powered by IDIS’ deep learning engine. Every cropped image is classified into three categories: people, faces and vehicles.

Object attributes

To make tracking even easier, A-Cut combined with AI Search also identifies object attributes and allows filtered searches (for example, searching for people by age and gender, by clothing colour or whether they have accessories such as glasses, hats, masks or bags or searching for vehicles by colour or type).

In practice, A-Cut will help organisations to respond more quickly to potential threats, allowing intervention at an earlier stage.

Dr Seong-Jin Yun, head of the R&D Centre for the Advanced Technology Division and senior vice-president at IDIS, stated: “A-Cut technology will prove invaluable in a wide range of monitoring applications. Whether you’re safeguarding public spaces, overseeing retail operations or managing security at sensitive facilities, A-Cut delivers unmatched speed, clarity and control, in turn helping the team to retain comprehensive situational awareness and respond quickly and appropriately to a security threat or safety incident.”

*Further information is available online at www.idisglobal.com