ST Engineering Unveils Gen-AI, ML Video Search Product
- By Paul Mah
- September 07, 2023
Singapore-listed company ST Engineering this week unveiled AGIL Vision, its first video appliance that incorporates both generative AI and optimized machine learning (ML) models to quickly and accurately search video footage.
While video analytics is hardly new, ST Engineering says existing solutions generally require the crafting of multiple rules for each search. This makes it both laborious and slow.
With AGIL Vision, users can type in search queries using natural language, ChatGPT-style. This allows users to quickly and easily find footage of interest, including defining a range of search permutations not previously possible.
AGIL Vision
The AGIL Vision system was announced at ST Engineering’s annual InnoTech 2023 conference this week. Jin Phang Low, president of Digital Systems at ST Engineering, noted that users can search by color, object, actions, behaviors, and even brand marks.
Looking for a lost child at a mall wearing her favorite pink dress? Low painted a picture of frantic parents rushing to mall security personnel for help.
“Based on the keywords and AGIL Vision, [we can search] through video streams from the hundreds of cameras within the big shopping center and instantaneously identify your child from the exact video feed and the location where she's located,” he said.
Unlike cloud-based solutions, the on-premises AGIL Vision operates without requiring Internet connectivity. This removes the need to send data externally for a higher degree of control over data and significantly enhances data privacy.
Company representatives demonstrating the system say the plug-and-play device packs an onboard GPU for inference, though they declined to specify the brand or model.
Under the hood, an offline generative AI model processes instructions typed in by users, while traditional ML models conduct the actual search.
Each AGIL Vision device supports between six to 10 camera feeds of up to 4K resolution each. Multiple systems can also work together to support dozens of video streams.
ST Engineering says AGIL Vision can transform operations in the areas of public safety and security, in the defense sectors, and businesses niches such as retail, facilities management, and construction.
Paul Mah is the editor of DSAITrends. A former system administrator, programmer, and IT lecturer, he enjoys writing both code and prose. You can reach him at [email protected].
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Paul Mah
Paul Mah is the editor of DSAITrends, where he report on the latest developments in data science and AI. A former system administrator, programmer, and IT lecturer, he enjoys writing both code and prose.