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From Artificial Intelligence (AI) Driven Appearance Search with Dr. Mahesh Saptharishi · · Avigilon
“Imagine that you could use the internet, but you had no access to a service like Google enabling you to search for specific things that you're looking for... everything takes that much longer and given that human attention, human resources are at a premium, unless there is a real need for you to be looking at video, no one ever does.”
On , Mahesh Saptharishi, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Motorola Solutions Inc, spoke about search during Artificial Intelligence (AI) Driven Appearance Search with Dr. Mahesh Saptharishi on Avigilon.
About Mahesh Saptharishi
In a 2016 presentation, Mahesh Saptharishi, then Chief Technology Officer at Avigilon, discussed the company's Appearance Search technology, which he described as an artificial intelligence-driven system for video analysis. He argued that traditional video surveillance suffers from an "attention gap," noting that only 5% of recorded video is ever reviewed. Saptharishi stated that the goal of AI in this context is to filter out uninteresting content so that human attention can focus on important events. He described Appearance Search as a foundational step toward "site-wide intelligence," allowing users to search for an individual across all cameras in a facility rather than within a single camera's field of view. Saptharishi emphasized that the system is designed to be efficient and affordable for mainstream use, without requiring supercomputers or significant server costs)Skip.
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