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Published on: 9/24/2007
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Information contained in 1,525 frames, for example, can be handled in 2 kilobytes, Graziano said.
The MPEG7 annotations are encapsulated in a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) stream and processed by server-side software, such as the Eptascape Detection Engine, for behavioral analysis and event detection.Objects can be identified by segmenting the image.Pre-existing descriptors, tagged to image characteristics such as shape, color and texture, can be extracted and searched in real time, Graziano says.
The use of the MPEG7 standard, as well as the plug-and-play nature of the encoder, constitute a push by manufacturers of analytics hardware and software to make the technology more economical for a broader base of users, says Marco Graziano, CEO of Eptascape."Our goal is to get the cost of analytics down to less than $1,000 a camera," says Graziano, a cost point he says will begin to open up the small and medium sized business market.