INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
As image recognition advances continue to accelerate, startups with a mind towards security applications are seeing some major interest to
turn surveillance systems more intelligent.
AnyVision is working onface, body and object recognition tech and the underlying system
infrastructure to help companies deploy smart cameras for various purposes
The tech works when deployed on most types of camera and does not require highly sophisticated sensors to operate, the company says
&It not
just how accurate the system is, it also how much it scales,& Etshtein tells TechCrunch
&You can put more than 20 concurrent full HD camera streams on a single GPU.&
The Tel Aviv-based AI startup announced today that it has
closed a $28 million Series A funding round led by Bosch
The quickly growing company already has 130 employees and has plans to open up three new offices by the year end.
Right now, AnyVision is
working on products in a few different verticals
Its security product called &Better Tomorrow& has been a key focus for the company.
Even as tech giants in the U.S
like Amazon and Google are scrutinized for contracts with government orgs that involve facial recognition tech,Etshtein believes that their
company solution will be an improvement over existing video surveillance technologies in terms of protecting the public privacy.
&Today, the
video management systems basically record everything and you can see individuals faces, you can see everything.&Etshtein says
&Once our system is installed it pixelates all the faces in the stream automatically, even the operator in the control center cannot see
your face because the mathematical models just represent the persons of interest.&
The company also recently released a product called
FaceKey that leverages the company facial recognition tech for verification purposes, allowing customers with phones that are not just the
iPhone X to use their face as a two-factor authentication method in things like banking apps
Now, there have certainly been a lot of issues with maintaining the needed accuracy which is exactly what has made FaceID so novel, but
AnyVision CEOEylon Etshteinclaims to have &cracked the problem.&
Other products AnyVision is working on include some new efforts in the
sports and entertainment spaces as well as a retail analytics platform that they&re hoping to release later this summer.
