With the advent of more accurate sensors like high-resolution cameras, computers, and powerful software, the use of AI in image and video analytics is increasing in the areas like personal authentication or identification, customer experience, fraud prevention, monitoring, behavioral analysis, etc. The most popular application of this technology is the “face lock” feature on our smartphones which we use several times in our daily lives.
Before starting on how this technology is preventing fraud and helping in catching criminals, let’s first understand how this technology works. To recognize a face from an image, the first step is face detection. The image is transformed into greyscale because it is easy to detect faces in greyscale. Then the image is enhanced and manipulated by resizing, cropping, blurring, sharpening, etc. The algorithm then runs to detect various objects in the image and identify faces. Once the face is detected, a highly complex set of features are extracted like the length of jawline; spacing between eyes or eyes and lips; dimensions of the nose, lips, face; the ratio of widths, etc. These features are then matched with the ones stored in the database to identify the face.
Video analytics also works on the same principle. The video consists of capturing an event in various photographs continuously called frames. The frames when combined and played at a specific speed form a video. To analyze the video, these frames are treated as an independent image and the same sort of analysis can be done as image analytics, though video analytics finds application in areas like traffic management, event management, better surveillance, and security, etc.
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