Savasa Project: Ikusi unveils platform prototype for intelligent search in video files

Based on semantic video processing technologies and developments for the deployment of services in 'the cloud, Ikusi prototype enables intelligent analysis and search of video files.

The prototype of the platform for intelligent search in video files, whose first version Ikusi has presented in the contest Sicur 2014, which was held at the end of last February at IFEMA – Feria de Madrid, integrates the first results of the European project Savasa (standards based approach to video archive search and analysis), coordinated by this company and in which ten other members from five countries participate, including companies, technology centres, universities and large-scale file video operators.

In this first version of the platform that is being designed and integrated based on the results achieved in the project shows the progress made in semantic analysis and geolocated search for events. The final launch of the platform is scheduled for May 2014, coinciding with the last meeting of the Consortium to be held at the Ikusi facilities in San Sebastian.

This project, with a budget of 4,1 million euro and co-financed by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), aims to develop an innovative platform aimed at improving intelligent search in video files and their advanced analysis supported by semantic video processing technologies and developments for the deployment of its cloud services.

Today, transport infrastructure operators (Airports, Trains, Railways, Etc.) they do not have any tool that allows them to perform intelligent video searches in their video surveillance files. That's why, when they receive an official request from the State Security Forces and Bodies, they are forced to view huge amounts of videos until they can find the event that is needed as judicial evidence.

This manual verification video process is not only time-consuming, rather, it triggers the costs of transport entities and limits the police's ability to react to an ongoing investigation..

To overcome this problem, the Savasa project proposes the creation of a video file search platform that allows authorized users to carry out semantic queries on different remote and non-interoperable video files.

The project uses current computer vision trends, video semantic recovery and analysis. A goal to which is added the guarantee that the results can be deployed in distributed systems and as software services.

In this sense, the Savasa project has a significant participation of a group of expert end-users at European level who are defining the requirements, current and future, of such technologies to improve the security of citizens, while ensuring your privacy. That's why, the project also complies with strict regulations for the protection of freedom, security and justice, and is advised by experts in ethics and safety.

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