BriefCam, an industry leading provider of Video Content Analytics and VIDEO SYNOPSIS® solutions, and Winner of Best Video Analytics Solution in the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, has implemented significant advancements to its product portfolio.
BriefCam v5.6’s innovative and extensible video content analytics platform, now offers a MOBILE APP for Face Recognition-enabled video search on-the-go, and new License Plate Recognition (LPR) search and filter video options and real-time alerts triggers.
The latest release also includes improvements in performance, accuracy and usability across its product lines, to further enable customers to fully leverage their video surveillance investments.
“BriefCam continues to build upon its best-in-class video analytics platform with key capabilities that expand use cases for accelerating video investigations, attaining situational awareness and deriving operational intelligence,” explains Stephanie Weagle, BriefCam CMO.
“We are excited to offer innovative new features and more freedom of choice for deploying BriefCam video analytics.”
BriefCam’s robust portfolio of critical video analytics solutions, fully integrated and architected for flexible deployment models, is designed to meet the safety, security, and operational efficiency needs of today and tomorrow.
New v5.6 capabilities include:
License Plate Recognition:
Receive alerts for “in the wild” license plate recognition, identifying license plates through watchlists, existing video or data uploads.
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Designed especially for “in the wild” surveillance scenarios, BriefCam’s differentiated license plate recognition enables users to search video and pinpoint vehicle license plates across cameras and videos based on watchlists, data uploads and existing video.
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Users can trigger rule-based alerts when license plates appearing in a predefined watchlist are detected.
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Data analysts can quantify, measure and trend vehicle activity based on license plate recognition.
People Counting:
Configure count-based rules to monitor the increase or decrease of people in a pre-defined range of view or area – ideal for tracking queues and waiting areas.
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Configure count-based rules to monitor and alert on the increase or decrease of people in a pre-defined range of view or area.
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Leveraging pose detection techniques for improved accuracy, BriefCam tracks even semi-obstructed people, enabling the quantification and visualization of occupancy data over time and the actionable intelligence can be leveraged in real-time to detect queue formation thresholds.
Learn why VCA-Driven People Counting is More Important Than Ever with the Coronavirus Outbreak.
BriefCam Mobile App:
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BriefCam Mobile App users can now pinpoint faces in video by leveraging face recognition capabilities to view and select faces found in videos, and search for their appearances across other cameras.
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For video search, images of faces can be taken with the device camera or uploaded from its gallery or from external sources.
(The BriefCam Mobile App makes video searchable on-the-go, to accelerate field investigations by rapidly pinpointing men, women, children, and vehicles across all surveillance cameras, within selected time ranges, delivering a seamless extension of an existing BriefCam Insights or Protect deployment to the user’s mobile device. Courtesy of BriefCam and YouTube.)
BriefCam further enables its video content analytics beyond the confines of a centralized location, enabling flexible deployment models.
By doing so, new use cases are introduced, total cost of ownership is reduced, and video processing requirements can be distributed.
BriefCam Investigator, Cloud Edition:
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With BriefCam’s initial cloud offering, law enforcement agencies can take advantage of rapid video investigation for file-based video ingestion without any on-premise hardware requirements.
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Reducing the total cost of ownership and eliminating capital expenditures with a flexible, subscription-based pricing-model based on processing hour, storage and concurrent user quota packages.
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A highly secure, cost-efficient and scalable solution, Investigator, Cloud Edition empowers video investigators to rapidly accelerate video investigations.
“BriefCam prides itself on delivering not only new analytic capabilities and deployment models, but also simultaneously increasing video processing performance and improving accuracy,” Weagle added.
Join BriefCam for an online guided product tour to get a first look at the latest product release, which will be held on Tuesday, April 11th, 2020 at 11:00 EDT (15:00 UTC).
BriefCam Honored in Second ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program for Best Video Analytics Solution
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Best Video Analytics Solution
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BriefCam’s complete Video Content Analytics platform with VIDEO SYNOPSIS to review hours of video in minutes & rapidly pinpoint people and objects of interest.
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*BriefCam was also recognized in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Award Program Winner.
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BriefCam is the industry’s leading provider of Deep Learning and VIDEO SYNOPSIS® solutions for rapid video review and search, face and license plate recognition, real-time alerting and quantitative video insights.
By transforming raw video into actionable intelligence, BriefCam dramatically shortens the time-to-target for security threats while increasing safety and optimizing operations.
BriefCam’s ‘ASTORS’ Award-Winning products are deployed by law enforcement and public safety organizations, government and transportation agencies, major enterprises, healthcare and educational institutions, and local communities worldwide.
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