Israel’s top 12 video surveillance analysis advances

When two bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, the police and security officials in charge of investigating the attack turned immediately to the many video security cameras posted in the area.

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Combing such vast amounts of material would have taken months, or even years in the past, but with new video analytics technologies, it took them just a few days to identify and track Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarneav, the two main suspects in the attack which killed three, and wounded 183. Within five days one of the terrorists was dead, the other arrested after a 22-hour manhunt. It’s not the first time video analytics technologies have been used to solve a terror attack, or crime, and it certainly won’t be the last. When a bomb hit government buildings in Oslo in July 2011, and a mass shooting occurred on an island in Norway just a few hours later, police investigating the attacks used video analysis technology developed by Israeli company BriefCam to unravel what had occurred and identify the attacker. Three years ago, ISRAEL21c featured a top 10 list of smart video analytics systems developed in Israel. In the intervening years, the field has developed and grown. Israel, with its years of experience fighting terror, has become one of the leading players in the field worldwide, providing some of the most advanced solutions to law enforcement officials on offer today. More...

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