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Video Synopsis Revolutionizes Review of Video Surveillance

Professor Shlomo Peleg of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invented a system for enabling investigators to view key segments only from many hours of video camera surveillance. Credit: Hebrew University photo by Sasson Tiram

Professor Shlomo Peleg of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invented a system for enabling investigators to view key segments only from many hours of video camera surveillance. Credit: Hebrew University photo by Sasson Tiram

Millions of surveillance cameras around the world are today watching public and private areas around the clock but most recorded video is never watched or examined.

A solution to this problem has been developed by Professor Shlomo Peleg of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that uses motion detection technology to summarize a video captured over a very long time period into a synopsis only a few minutes long that contains only events where motion was detected.

Read the whole article at: PhysOrg.