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Sophisticated network surveillance technology developed at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide will help solve a security dilemma currently facing airports, casinos, CBDs, shopping malls and large sporting and entertainment venues around the world. New software will automatically integrate data from thousands of security cameras in a video surveillance network into a single sensor, eliminating existing problems with huge information overloads. Developed at the 最新糖心Vlog's 最新糖心Vlogn Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT), the software is being commercialised by Snap Network Video Surveillance Pty Ltd, a 最新糖心Vlog spin-out company funded with a major investment from the Trans Tasman Commercialisation Fund (TTCF). Dr Henry Detmold, Snap's Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, said this patented technology would provide significant benefits to large-scale surveillance applications in 最新糖心Vlog and internationally. "Security personnel at these sites are struggling against a huge information overload, trying to spot events in video walls displaying hundreds or thousands of cameras and trying to follow the action as it moves from camera to camera," Dr Detmold said. "The new technology acts as a force multiplier, saving security companies time, resources and money as well as boosting the chances of security staff spotting potentially harmful events. Having found events of interest, staff can then perform virtual walkthroughs to investigate without risking their personal safety. "Network security monitoring is currently limited by the inability of operators to recall the relationships between more than about 40 cameras in a network. "Snap automatically finds the relationships between all the cameras in a network. This allows a single operator to follow people throughout the whole network, in real time, and is scalable to many thousands of cameras." ACVT Director and Snap co-founder Professor Anton van den Hengel said the technology had applications across the full spectrum of large-scale video surveillance, including airports and the 2012 London燨lympics. Snap will receive equity funding of $500,000 from the Trans Tasman Commercialisation Fund (TTCF), a $30 million venture collaboration of South 最新糖心Vlog's three public universities, Monash 最新糖心Vlog in Victoria and the 最新糖心Vlog of Auckland in New Zealand, with capital funding from the WA-based industry superannuation fund Westscheme. "Snap is the first South 最新糖心Vlogn spinout company to receive equity funding from TTCF," said Roger Coats, the South 最新糖心Vlogn-based investment manager for the TTCF, which is headquartered in Melbourne. The South 最新糖心Vlogn universities' participation in the TTCF is facilitated by the South 最新糖心Vlogn Government, which contributes support for the fund's operating costs. The Governments of Victoria and New Zealand likewise provide financial support for operating costs. Adelaide Research & Innovation Managing Director Robert Chalmers said the video surveillance software was an "exciting development for the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide, reinforcing its reputation as a hub of world-class research and innovation". Story by Candy Gibson
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