With BriefCam, you go beyond facial recognition and add 27 other ways to refine your search.
photograph: RNZ / Cole Eastham Farrelly
The surveillance company used by New Zealand police to spot people on camera is celebrating the rise of artificial intelligence abroad.
Police have been using BriefCam since 2020 to analyze CCTV footage of faces and vehicles.
Briefcam said in an industry update that half of the companies in its global market now have “AI-enabled” video surveillance.
It also had AI-based systems deployed across “multiple departments” during the quarter.
A major part of the US corporate market is law enforcement agencies such as the US police.
With BriefCam, you go beyond facial recognition and add 27 other ways to refine your search.
Briefcam also said there are now three times as many high-definition surveillance cameras as there were five years ago.
The video analytics market is projected to more than quadruple in size by the end of the 2010s, exceeding $30 billion annually.
A high-tech inventory survey released by the New Zealand Police in 2020 revealed the use of BriefCam.
This system, along with several others, was classified as having “capacity for targeted, large-scale surveillance activities that clearly pose a high risk.”
In 2020, police said it was not used on live surveillance footage, but only on stored footage to identify the suspect’s “known” face.
This could reduce the time it takes to analyze three months of video footage from six weeks to two hours.
