VAS Features

Media Hub (Media Management and Sharing Services)

• Video Upload, Playback, Search, Request and Sharing (Future support via Cloud Video Exchange)
• Video stream ingress from remote camera sources
• Image dataset upload, management and sharing

VideoIO (VA Enablement Service)

• Annotate images and videos, and develop object detection models through an intuitive UI
• Train video analytics models using cloud resources
• Manage multiple projects and multiple classes
• Use less data and prototype faster with transfer learning and data augmentation
• Compatible with multiple image formats

Insights Service (VA-as-a-service)

• Generate insights for your videos based on ready-to-use VA services for detection and counting of relevant events and objects
• VA Services that are currently available include:
  • Balefire: Smoking action detection and count
  • Mobius: Detection of Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs), pedestrians and cyclists
  • PlateSnap: Number plate recognition and detection of parking behavior by unique vehicles, with identification of vehicular types
  • Seafari: Detection and dwell time estimation of marine vessels and kayaks
  • LISA: Biometric photo compliance check
  • TorusVision: Detection of entities and groups of entities; estimation of distance between entities to provide notification of clustered groups where entities are closely spaced (e.g. for social distancing)
• Allows customisation of regions of interest (for supported services)
• Users can generate shareable reports, with automatic notifications when the analysis has been completed
• API support for selected image analytics services
• Export reports in CSV format for custom analysis

Video Indexer

• Extracts rich metadata from videos, such as:
  • Topics and conceptual entities
  • Object and action identification and labelling
  • Face detection and identification with automatic thumbnail extraction
  • Different scenes with reference keyframe extraction
  • Visual text recognition
  • Observed people tracking
  • Transcription
• Search across videos and within videos for specific topics or tags
• Navigate easily to segments within the video containing the topic of interest

Metadata Service

• Search and filter aggregated metadata according to available attributes, such as:
  • Vehicle Type (e.g. bicycle or Personal Mobility Device)
  • Event Type Attribute (e.g. instances of smoking)
  • Spatial Attributes (e.g. postal code)

Last updated 20 February 2023