The future of video surveillance: How big Data hits the ground from sci-fi

Editor's note: The technology media has recently launched a whirlwind of discussion about big data and video surveillance. This paper shares some practical experiences that can be seen, touched and predicted by practitioners. Thanks to the practice of the Safe City Video surveillance network, Chinese enterprises have been in the forefront of the world in the solution and practice, and today's technical reserve has been able to explore the pragmatic landing of these sci-fi scenes.

The author is the Vision Technology solution Architect. From it to the security industry, Yu-See internal more discussion is how to put down the internet in the castles in the castle, it's high, but in the framework of the top design, pull up the pant leg to promote the application of security industry.

The most popular news in recent days is the Xiamen bus explosion case, followed by the Xiamen Municipal Safety Production Committee promulgated the "Fujian Province on further strengthening the safety of gas stations emergency notice," the notice requires Xiamen to buy canned gasoline must real name. Of course, the bus bombing is not the point I want to say, the point is that if the station's video surveillance system to rise earlier to a new height, perhaps this disaster can be avoided, those lives may not suddenly leave us ...

All along, security practitioners have a dream, monitoring system is no longer a means of verification after the event, but a tool to prevent crime. The dream is the demand, the demand is pulling us toward the future. So today, I want to share with you the future of the video surveillance industry in a relaxed way.

"EAGLE EYE": A cloud computing center

I'm a movie enthusiast, but I'm not crazy about four or five of them a year, and then a year to digest them. The movie is a very magical thing, in a short two or three hours or condensed for thousands of years of history, or mapping the present, but the most attractive to me is that the film can preview the future, show us a life that may not be able to experience the future.

As early as 2008, there was a film that showed us the future of the monitoring industry-eagle EYE.

The film begins, the hero was unreasonably framed, network account suddenly out of 750,000 of dollars, the home was piled up with the weapons, the FBI was hunted, and the heroine was threatened, her son Sammy's life is at stake; All this makes them have to follow the instructions of a vague call to complete a task. Control them, not people, is a computer, to be exact, is a cloud computing center. The military has established an eagle eye system, the main use of which is counter-terrorism. The front-end video capture points are spread around the globe, and the original information obtained is analyzed to determine whether a terrorist organization or terrorist action has been concluded. Hawkeye can enter any other information application system: She can control the access system to restrict access, access to the bank system to modify account information, enter the traffic system to change the state of the lights, but also to enter the airport security system to change the image of the scanner ... The Eagle Eye Program is not only completely detached from the human command, but also transformed into a machine that controls humans.

The future: Keeping an eye on the implementation of complete machine intelligence decision making at the last minute

Switching back from the movie to reality, we need to answer a question, the movie shows, is not monitoring the industry's future? After all, it is not easy to grasp the future direction of an industry, we need a lot of evidence.

Do we remember the shock of the first sci-fi movie more than 10 years ago? However, in 2012, when I watched "Mission 4", I was able to calmly and easily look for the scene which is not in line with the logic of control, because many of the technology in the film we are already in use or are practicing. Because each of the science fiction film producers in the respect of science and technology based on the play and imagination, with the passage of time, when science and technology with unprecedented acceleration of the infinite approximation of our imagination, the gap between the imagination and reality will be less and less, so the sci-fi film gradually become less magical. From "Mission 4" of the retina camera, to the current Google glasses, from Hawkeye's anti-terrorism program to the two-day "Prism Gate" event, seems to us to prove the Unreal film that the real future.

In the decades of monitoring the development of the industry, technology has soared: high-definition-let us see more and more clearly, networking-let us see the scope of the broader, integrated-so that the relevant systems are no longer islands. But in this process, there is a link has been stagnant, there is no progress-security personnel working status. For decades, monitoring center security personnel are always in the 24-hour stare of the state, in the face of heavy access to police work, has never been completely liberated!

The movie tells us that the biggest change in the future is to remove the "people" and realize the complete machine intelligence. What people have to do is make decisions at the last minute.

Cloud computing forced: Smart video requires efficient architecture

It may sound strange, but the future is not far away, for the future is always faster than we think. Wise Bill Gates once said that 640K of memory for any PC is enough, now even schoolchildren will find this sentence ridiculous. This era, the development of technology is exponential rise and non-linear rise, the existence of computer to let the reality closely follow the pace of imagination, "Eagle Eye" in the future of the display may be fleeting, and its scientific basis is the digital video surveillance, IP.

The moment the analog video is sampled and turned into 0101 digits, the monitoring industry has entered a subversive inflection point, because it can be computed and analyzed by powerful computers, and this video is no longer a life-threatening record, and a prelude to a gold mine from the tomb begins-why "gold mine"? Because the video is naturally rich in information, is the extension of our human eye, is the data treasure, why is "start", because the Internet quickly traction and drive a series of support technology: cloud computing, IoT, large data structure can be used to monitor the system, monitoring into the process of intelligence by these technologies into the wings.

Admittedly, the future has always been a step away from us, this "step" is the intelligent can not be large-scale deployment. Where are the obstacles? Algorithms and computational resources.

First, where does the huge computational resource come from? Resources need to be built and purchased, in this constantly standardized, open, open source architecture flooded with the large environment, whether the realization of system function is no longer the evaluation of product quality standards, but in the implementation of the function, who is less expensive, who the use of computing resources more fully, also means who can in the same computing resources, under the premise of Make the system larger and more efficient.

I think cloud computing is forced out, there is no internet access to Shanghai and search, there will be no cloud computing birth. Demand always traction technology to solve the large-scale deployment of intelligent video, we need a more efficient architecture.

Traditional security manufacturers because of the lack of IT technology application capacity, usually build the left side of this vertical structure, because this technology is the easiest to implement, direct copy of the traditional it model, but the problem is that with the monitoring of the business of low matching, low efficiency, bottleneck point, reliability is poor. Because the traditional it cloud computing model is tailored for relational business data, each data needs to be calculated, processed, and then entered into the storage device, while the video is different, and many times the video does not need to be calculated but goes directly into the display device and the storage device.

Yu-Vision in the depth of the video business characteristics of the premise of the integration of IT technology in the video system, set up a full Exchange architecture (diagram on the right side of the diagram). The biggest benefit of a flat architecture is a matrix structure, with direct interaction between each node-efficient, highly reliable, low-cost, and most consistent with future complex business applications and massive data processing requirements. And Yu-View company is the only monitoring companies with a full Exchange system architecture to obtain the national Second prize of Scientific and technological progress of the manufacturers. Of course, cloud monitoring video Monitoring system architecture not only solves the problem of resource saving, but also can solve the problem of "open source". The whole Exchange architecture integrates virtualization, clustering technology, and dynamically manages and integrates computing resources in the system to excavate more computing resources for intelligent service.

Second, the constraints of intelligent large-scale deployment of another factor is the algorithm, with a gun ball tracking function to give examples, wind-induced leaves, flags, watermark, flying plastic bags and so on, will trigger the ball machine error tracking ... The current intelligent algorithm is too dependent on the environment, the monitoring industry needs more effective algorithms to shield the interference of the environment.

No manufacturer can research all the intelligent analysis algorithms to the extreme by one's own power, this piece needs to open the cooperation more. In the intelligent analysis business, Yu-vision and many well-known domestic manufacturers for strategic cooperation, and put forward the "intelligent analysis of the rule combination" concept, a variety of single behavior highly abstract infinitesimal rules, through the composite element rules to form business rules to adapt to complex business scenarios. If a scene not only needs to carry out the boundary judgment, wandering the judgment, the goods detention judgment can form the final alarm.

IA Intelligent Service architecture-rich intelligent analysis Meta rule combination

Back in the movie, "Cloud chart" tells us that all the final records of human beings are in the form of video. In the future, video will become the carrier of history and become one of the most important substances in human life. A film critic wrote very well-"The essence of science fiction movies is not science itself, but the change of science to human society, magnificent science fiction epic, often has a huge time span, to tell the human life form change, explore the fate of mankind." Human fast towards the future of intelligence, there is no doubt that the company as a representative of the video surveillance enterprises, whether from the architectural level or algorithmic level, have done a full technical reserve, only to wait for the arrival of the moment.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)