The future of Video Analytics......

As the cliche goes, "all good things must come to an end", and so must this fascinating trip that we've taken together through this blog. We have seen how Video Analytics can revolutionise the Gaming Industry (think Wii and Kinect which does that to a basic level today), we have seen how we can fairly and objectively compare players (Messi vs Ronaldo) and we have seen how it can enhance security while making it cheaper and more efficient. We hope you've enjoyed learning about this wonderful new technology and have found our posts both entertaining and educative.

Unfortunately, as is always the case, with interesting topics like this, there is never enough time to cover all that there is to be talked about. If we have been able to excite you about this technology and you want more information and background reading, here are some more links that you can look up:

• This site takes you through the future of the technology and some of the basic challenges that are yet to be overcome.
• This paper from Andrew Adams (Meiji University) and James Ferryman (Reading University) talks about Video Analytics from a more ethical perspective.
• AgentVI is a company focused on providing Video Analytics solutions. Their website provides a rich overview of the capabilities of the technology and how it works.
• IBM provides a Video Analytics suite as well which is described in good detail.

Like any other emergent technologies, there are many challenges yet to be overcome. Primarily, challenges for Video Analytics are around false alarms, reliability, etc. Think about rain in the outdoors. Rain distorts what a camera sees, and hence it introduces noise into the analytics procedure thus creating false alarms. But given time, and focus, such problems have been overcome in the past and can be overcome here too. Sometimes, solutions can be low tech even. For example, rain resistant films can be placed on the camera screens that are capturing the video. 

It has been a pleasure researching this topic. If you need more information, then feel free to leave us a message and we will get back to you. Best of luck and here's to a beautiful world with Video Analytics.

From all of us Majo Pundits,

Kyle, Marcelo, Pierre, Catalina, Hasan and Ushinor.