Paris Olympics Turbocharging Video Content Analysis At Every Level.
Paris Olympics Turbocharging Video Content Analysis – The 2024 Paris Olympics is taking video content analysis to giddy new heights, with lateral partnerships between manufacturers, providers, law enforcement agencies and government at unprecedented levels.
It’s no great surprise France is on high alert, with the security situation in parts of Europe more volatile than they’ve been in many decades. The response of the French Government is partnering with the private sector to enhance multi-level surveillance – public and private CCTV, including drones, communications, geolocation, social media, wiretapping and more.
The profound nature of the AI video surveillance solution to be used has demanded the French parliament change the country’s laws – last year, France enacted Law No. 2023-380, which provided a legal framework for the 2024 Olympics while carefully treading around General Data Protection Regulations’ biometric data processing restrictions. It’s scary for privacy advocates but security managers will understand why French law enforcement wants it so badly.
A key element of the new law is Article 7, which allows French law enforcement and contractors to experiment with intelligent video surveillance throughout the 2024 Olympics. Another key element of the law is Article 10, which allows use of AI software to review a wide spectrum of video and camera feeds.
Paris Olympics Turbocharging Video Content Analysis
In terms of rubber meeting road, French security and law enforcement providers have teamed up with Videtics, Wintics, Orange Business and ChapsVision to deliver video content analysis functionalities in real time.
In the lead up to the Olympics, they’ve deployed these analytics on public transport, at concerts, during sporting events and more. Similar trials have been seen in other countries, including Australia. These trials may be contributing as test beds to the Olympic Games solution, though this is speculation.
For electronic security people, the AI rules being employed aren’t especially ground-breaking – crowd movement, inert body, object left, weapons and noise detection, smoke or flame detection, irregular traffic movements – this is all standard fare for some high security applications. But the lateral sharing of camera feeds from city surveillance, transport surveillance, private enterprise, venue and loads more, with everything going on in real time – that’s unusual.
How the security team will mesh data from video inputs with data gathered from other sources is hard to imagine – parsing such huge volumes of information coherently will be a massive challenge that is likely to bring in the expertise and resources of many of France’s allies and neighbours – in Europe and overseas.
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