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AI Weapons and Robbery Detection

Challenge

General AI technology can recognize objects in a photo or video stream. Leading AI engines can recognize people, cars, dogs, trees, etc. We have been training an AI engine to recognize weapons (e.g., handguns, rifles, shotguns,) violent movements, and people wearing “ski mask” baklavas, thanks to the collaboration with one of our retail clients. Our intention is to significantly reduce the risk of violence and danger.

Solution

AI image detection works by submitting a large number of ‘training data’ images to a set of algorithms. By telling the AI engine which images have the target object, in this case, guns, the engine will look for patterns. When successful identifications are scored higher, the engine will tweak the variables, repeat the exercise, and after several “epochs,” the AI engine will have “learned” how to spot a gun in an image.

So far, using a large set of training images and some computing power for the AI engine has been reasonably straightforward. The tricky part is taking the image recognition and deploying it to a real-world situation.

The steps for this are as follows:

  • Acquire a training set of images that contains various weapons
  • Train the AI engine to be reliable in spotting weapons (we’re way beyond cat faces or auto-tagging your friends on Insta)
  • Getting a decent high-quality video feed from existing cameras on location
  • Digitizing and piping that video feed to a local edge server (lag time is too high to go all the way to a centralized AI and back)
  • Applying the new smart AI to a video feed in real-time
  • Once a weapon is verifiably detected, enact policies automatically and immediately: lock doors, sound alarms, contact authorities, etc

The most challenging part of the real-world deployment is getting a reliable and consistent video feed. Working with our global client, we are standardizing flash camera use and edge server hardware configuration that can be deployed easily or is already onsite for other tracking purposes.

Next Steps

As we advance, we intend to make this application widely available. We are actively seeking large organizations to help bring this application, standardized camera configurations, and alert functionalities to schools, shops, churches, and campuses. Please contact us below to learn how we can support your organization with our technology.

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