No one can watch hours of surveillance video, yet CCTV deployment worldwide continues to grow. There is an acute need for technologies to assist security operators in browsing the ever-growing masses of video footage. BriefCam meets the global unfulfilled need to review surveillance video, identify incidents, investigate and take action. BriefCam's Video Synopsis gives users the ability to browse hours in minutes by compacting the day's events into a "brief" that takes just a few minutes to review. BriefCam VS Forensics is an easy-to-use offline Video Synopsis application that enables users to review footage, create, view and export Summary Videos for investigative purposes. VS Forensics is a stand-alone product that does not require integration with a DVR/NVR, and can summarize up to four AVI files simultaneously with unlimited queuing capacity. This year, Video Synopsis won the IFSEC Security Industry Award - Best CCTV Systems Product and a Kaye Innovation Award. Watching video is a time consuming process, because time is an inherent part of video. In the case of Video Synopsis, BriefCam treats time non-chronologically. A video summary is created by playing simultaneously multiple objects that may have occurred at different time. This enables the creation of very dense, short summaries of video, e.g. a full day of surveillance video can be represented in a video only a few minutes long. The summary is also an index into the original video: by selecting an object or an activity the original video showing this object and activity can be accessed immediately. Law enforcement entities using this surveillance solution include forensic investigation and other units employing CCTV including safe cities, highway and border surveillance, parks, railroads, campuses, airports, water plants, power plants and other sensitive installations. In short: any unit utilizing surveillance.
