AI security surveillance technology is spreading to a wider range of countries at a faster rate. At least 75 of the world’s 176 countries are actively using AI technology for surveillance purposes. These include: Smart Cities/Safe Cities Platform (56 countries), Facial Recognition Systems (64 countries) and Smart Policing (52 countries).
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China is a major driver of global AI surveillance. Technology linked to Chinese companies (notably Huawei, Hikvision, Dahua and ZTE) provides AI surveillance technology in 63 countries, 36 of which have signed up to the Belt and Road Initiative. Huawei alone is responsible for providing AI surveillance technology to at least 50 countries around the world. No other company can come close. The second largest non-Chinese supplier of AI surveillance technology is Japan’s NEC Corporation (14 countries).
However, China is not the only country providing advanced surveillance technology worldwide. American companies are also active in this field. AI surveillance technology provided by US companies is used in 32 countries. The most important companies in the US are IBM (11 countries), Palantir (9 countries) and Cisco (6 countries). Other companies – France, Germany, Israel, Japan – also play an important role in promoting the technology.
The increasingly important role of AI
With the development and progress of artificial intelligence AI technology, the self-learning ability of AI (artificial intelligence) in the field of security is ubiquitous, and the application of AI smart security is becoming more and more extensive.
The reason why AI can have a huge impact is because of its self-learning capabilities. Initially, the computer learned to reason about the objects of interest in the scene. It can now detect real-world objects, match the results with the correct annotations (provided by humans), and then try to improve further. So AI is constantly learning and improving. The error rate gets smaller and smaller with each iteration, and the error rate is lower than human error.
Some key applications of AI in surveillance scenarios, such as object/person tracking, area monitoring, parking occupancy detection, vehicle analysis, and traffic monitoring. Especially during the global Covid-19 crisis, many companies have spent a lot of effort building AI-based systems to ensure social distancing in public areas. AI is already everywhere.
For example, for people tracking, video processing is done in real-time to analyze and identify security risks that could pose a safety hazard to the business. Video analytics technology effectively enables surveillance software to reason and detect abnormal behavior and identify security risks that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Security, as a rigid demand in the industry, is the most important scene for AI to land, and it has become a battleground for artificial intelligence. AI technology has penetrated into all aspects of the industry. Taking the security field as an example, the trend of combining video surveillance with AI, big data, cloud computing, edge computing and other technologies is getting closer and closer.