Computer Vision News - January 2017

Every month, Computer Vision News reviews a successful project. Our main purpose is to show how diverse image processing applications can be and how the different techniques can contribute to solving technical challenges and physical difficulties. This month we review the integration of Image analysis in Internet of Things applications , and the numerous problems in the real world that could be solved by it. RSIP Vision’s engineers can help you do that in countless application fields. Contact our consultants now . Internet of Things is a new category of Web applications, using devices and tools as small brains to interact with other devices to perform specific actions in an unsupervised way. The major components of IoT are the “brain” which is inside the device, the communication with other devices or with the cloud , and the cloud itself, where data is stored, analysis is performed and decisions are taken. This brain within the device can range from simple loggers of sensors data , having the ability to communicate with the cloud and transfer their knowledge to it, to devices equipped with integrated activators able to control them (like by switching on a light or emi tt ing a sound) , up to high-end devices which are very similar to smartphones without screens and are able to receive data, process it within the unit and take decisions based on the data itself or on other data coming from the cloud. Many IoT applications incorporate image analysis as an integral function. A first example is that of security and surveillance applications , designed to detect intruders or any other suspicious event in a specific area. The general role of the IoT device is to collect data and transfer it to the cloud, where image analysis algorithms analyse it on two key directions: on one hand we want to know what is in the scene, on the other hand we need to describe what a regular eventless status looks like. A comparison between these two descriptions allows to identify any unexpected, suspicious event or presence. In this respect, the IoT brain located within the camera performs a simple analysis inside the device, it compresses Project 12 Computer Vision News Project Image Analysis in Internet of Things - IoT Image analysis is closing the gap between the state of the art IoT technology and the practical conditions in the real world, with its constraints and limitations