Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080205703 | Methods and Apparatus for Automatically Tracking Moving Entities Entering and Exiting a Specified Region - Techniques for tracking entities using a single overhead camera are provided. A foreground region is detected in a video frame of the single overhead camera corresponding to one or more entities. It is determined if the foreground region is associated with an existing tracker. It is determined whether the detected foreground region is the result of at least one of a merger of two or more smaller foreground regions having corresponding existing trackers and a split of a larger foreground region having a corresponding existing tracker when the detected foreground region is not associated with an existing tracker. The detected foreground region is tracked via at least one existing tracker when the foreground region is associated with an existing tracker or the foreground region is the result of at least one of a merger and a split. | 08-28-2008 |
20080231706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MOVING SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS - An approach that manages moving surveillance cameras is described. In one embodiment, there is a system for managing images generated from a movable camera. In this embodiment, the system comprises a motion estimation component configured to determine camera motion. A camera motion alert component is configured to generate an alert in response to a determination that the camera has moved or the camera has ceased moving. | 09-25-2008 |
20080231709 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE INTERACTION OF OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING SYSTEMS IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE - A system, method and program product for providing a video surveillance system that enhances object detection by utilizing feedback from a tracking system to an object detection system. A system is provided that includes: a moving object detection system for detecting moving objects in a video input; an object tracking system for tracking a detected moving object in successive time instants; and a tracker feedback system for feeding tracking information from the object tracking system to the moving object detection system to enhance object detection. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232641 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF RETAIL DISPLAY EFFECTIVENESS - The present invention relates to the measurement of human activities through video, particularly in retail environments. A method for measuring retail display effectiveness in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: detecting a moving object in a field of view of an imaging device, the imaging device obtaining image data of a product display; tracking the object in the field of view of the imaging device to obtain a track; and obtaining statistics for the track with regard to the product display. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232681 | OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON A POOL OF ADAPTIVE FEATURES - A method, system and computer program product for detecting presence of an object in an image are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a method for detecting a presence of an object in an image comprises: receiving multiple training image samples; determining a set of adaptive features for each training image sample, the set of adaptive features matching the local structure of each training image sample; integrating the sets of adaptive features of the multiple training image samples to generate an adaptive feature pool; determining a general feature based on the adaptive feature pool; and examining the image using a classifier determined based on the general feature to detect the presence of the object. | 09-25-2008 |
20080235246 | FILTER SEQUENCING BASED ON A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE ARCHITECTURE FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING - In general, the present invention allows any number of sequential filter graphs to be created based on a pub-sub architecture/model. Specifically, under the present invention, the filters (components) will publish their ideal priorities of accessing data source, an ideal input data type, and a unique alternative input data type. A mechanism such as a queue manager will receive the publication(s) and determine an appropriate order/sequence of the filters based on their ideal priorities. The queue manager will also assign an output data type to each filter (an optionally an alternative output data type) based on the ideal input types specified in the publish messages. The queue manager will then transmit messages (e.g., a subscribe message) to the filters with the determined order and assigned data types. | 09-25-2008 |
20080247609 | RULE-BASED COMBINATION OF A HIERARCHY OF CLASSIFIERS FOR OCCLUSION DETECTION - An occlusion detection system and method include a decomposer configured to decompose an image into a set of hierarchical parts. A hierarchy of classifiers is employed to detect features in the image and the hierarchical parts. A logical operation is configured to logically combine a classification result from at least two of the classifiers to detect an occlusion state of the image. | 10-09-2008 |
20080252448 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT DETECTION UTILIZING SENSOR BASED SURVEILLANCE - The present invention includes a method, system, and program product for detecting an event that includes receiving at least one data input stream from one or more sensors, selecting a data input stream from one of the one or more sensors, recording the data input stream on a recordable medium, specifying a rule comprising an event in the data input stream, and detecting at least one event in the data input stream based upon the rule. | 10-16-2008 |
20080252727 | PEOPLE SEARCHES BY MULTISENSOR EVENT CORRELATION - A data indexing system and method includes acquiring activity data in a context and indexing the activity data in accordance with contextual conditions. The activity data is stored in accordance with indices. An event is correlated with the activity data by using the indices to review the activity data in the context. | 10-16-2008 |
20080259179 | Automatic Multiscale Image Acquisition from a Steerable Camera - A system for automatically acquiring high-resolution images by steering a pan-tilt-zoom camera at targets detected in a fixed camera view is provided. The system uses automatic or manual calibration between multiple cameras. Using automatic calibration, the homography between the cameras in a home position is estimated together with the effects of pan and tilt controls and the expected height of a person in the image. These calibrations are chained together to steer a slave camera. The manual calibration scheme steers a camera to the desired region of interest and calculates the pan, tile and zoom parameters accordingly. | 10-23-2008 |
20080273088 | INTELLIGENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED EVENT BASED SURVEILLANCE - A surveillance system and method includes a plurality of sensors configured to monitor an environment. A plurality of analytic engines is associated with each of the plurality of sensors. The plurality of analytic engines employs different technologies and is configured to analyze input from the sensors to determine whether an event has occurred in a respective technology. A unifying data model is configured to cross correlate detected events from the different technologies to gain integrated situation awareness across the different technologies. | 11-06-2008 |
20080296382 | SMART SCANNING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a smart scanning system comprising an integrated scanning and image capture system in which one or more image capture device(s) (e.g., still camera, video camera, etc.) and a barcode scanner are positioned within a common enclosure that is a component of a checkout station. The barcode of item is scanned and an image of the item is recorded. The identity of the item as determined based on the barcode is compared to its appearance as determined based on its image. If the identity is inconsistent with its appearance, a discrepancy is registered. It is then determined whether the discrepancy is due to fraud (e.g., theft) or device error. In the case of the latter, the system can be updated to prevent a repeat of the error. | 12-04-2008 |
20080296392 | PORTABLE DEVICE-BASED SHOPPING CHECKOUT - The present invention provides portable-device based store checkout. Specifically, a portable device is configured for store checkout. When the shopper obtains an item, he/she scans its barcode and captures its image using the portable device. The identity of the item as determined based on the barcode is compared with its appearance as determined based on the image. If the two are consistent with one another, the item is added to an inventory of items. The shopper can checkout by linking (e.g., porting) the portable device to a checkout station. The linking will cause the inventory of items to be made known to the checkout station, which will arrange payment using the portable device. Optionally, as an additional validation, the shopping receptacle can be weighed at the checkout station to make sure it reasonably meets an expected weight determined based on the inventory. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298693 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRESENTING ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE DATA - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for presenting electronic surveillance data. One method according to the invention includes identifying a point to be surveyed; establishing a schedule at which the point will be surveyed; capturing a first image of the point; storing the first image; capturing a second image of the point; storing the second image; highlighting a difference between the first and second images; and presenting the first and second images to a user. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304754 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TARGETED MARKETING BY LEVERAGING VIDEO-BASED DEMOGRAPHIC INSIGHTS - Demographic and transaction data are presented in a report usable for marketing-related purposes and other applications using a camera apparatus to capture customer image data at a point-of-sale location and sends the image data to a customer image database where the image data is stored. Demographic data (such as gender, age group, height) are extracted from the customer image data and sent to the customer image database. Point-of-sale transaction data is collected and sent to a transaction database where the transaction data is stored. A computer processes customer image data, transaction data, and attributes relating to the customer image data and transaction data, to correlate extracted demographic data to transaction data. The correlated data is preferably sent to a target marketing database and used to generate a market research report. | 12-11-2008 |
20090002492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL EVENT DETECTION USING COMPOSITE DEFINITIONS FOR CAMERA SYSTEMS - A system and method for monitoring events includes defining alert events based on primitive event types in an environment monitored by monitoring devices. Alert parameters are set for each alert event, and alert events are combined to create a composite alert event based on a plurality of alert events. A plurality of engines is monitored to determine if multiple events comprising the composite alert event have occurred. | 01-01-2009 |
20090022366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING VIDEO FROM NON-STATIC CAMERA - A novel system and method of treating the output of moving cameras, in particular ones that enable the application of conventional “static camera” algorithms, e.g., to enable the continuous vigilance of computer surveillance technology to be applied to moving cameras that cover a wide area. According to the invention, a single camera is deployed to cover an area that might require many static cameras and a corresponding number of processing units. A novel system for processing the main video sufficiently enables long-term change detection, particularly the observation that a static object has been moved or has appeared, for instance detecting the parking and departure of vehicles in a parking lot, the arrival of trains in stations, delivery of goods, arrival and dispersal of people, or any other application. | 01-22-2009 |
20090026269 | ITEM SCANNING SYSTEM - The present invention provides an item scanning system in which an appearance of an item is received (e.g., at checkout). The appearance is captured with an image capture device (e.g., still frame camera, video camera, etc.) that can be collocated with a barcode scanner. In being collocated, the image capture device can be positioned proximate (e.g., near, attached to, etc.) the bar code scanner, integrated within a common housing/unit with the barcode scanner, etc. In any event, a search engine will then search a database of items based on the appearance to identify a set of items that potentially match the item. When one of the set of items is selected (e.g., by the checkout clerk), the selection will be received and stored for future investigation/auditing. | 01-29-2009 |
20090026270 | SECURE CHECKOUT SYSTEM - Aspects of the present invention provide a secure checkout system comprising an image capture device (e.g., a camera) that is collocated with a handheld/portable scanner. The barcode of an item is scanned and an image of the item is recorded. It is then determined whether the identity of the item as determined based on the barcode is consistent with its appearance as determined from the image. If not, a discrepancy is registered. It is then determined whether the discrepancy is due to fraud (e.g., theft) or device error. In the case of the latter, the system can be updated to prevent a repeat of the error. | 01-29-2009 |
20090033746 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF AREA MONITORING BASED ON CAMERA MOTION - A solution for monitoring an area while accounting for camera motion and/or monitoring tasks is provided. For example, a physical area corresponding to a new field of view can be estimated for a camera for which motion is detected. The physical area can be estimated using a set of reference images previously captured by the camera, each of which comprises a unique field of view previously captured by the camera. Based on the physical area, a status for a monitoring task of the camera (e.g., an alert) can be updated and/or a location of an area for the monitoring task within an image captured by the camera can be updated. Further, based on the update(s), a field of view for a second camera can be automatically adjusted and/or a status for the monitoring task on the second camera can be automatically updated. | 02-05-2009 |
20090067716 | Robust and efficient foreground analysis for real-time video surveillance - Systems and methods for foreground analysis in real-time video include background subtraction and foreground detection, shadow removal, quick lighting change adaptation, static foreground region detection, foreground fragment reduction, and frame level change detection. Processes include background image extraction and foreground detection, integrating texture information of the background image and a current frame to remove false positive foreground areas resulting from lighting changes, integrating pixel intensity information by determining a cross-correlation of intensities between a current frame and the background image for each pixel in a foreground mask to remove image shadows. Static foreground region detection and fragment reduction are also included. | 03-12-2009 |
20090204512 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A RESTOCKING STATE OF A PRODUCT - The present invention is directed to a method and system for determining a restocking state of a product in a retail store. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: acquiring an image of a current state of a product at an assigned shelf location; determining a remaining number of the product at the assigned shelf location based on the acquired image; comparing the remaining number of the product at the assigned shelf location to a predetermined restocking level for the product; and generating a restocking alert if the remaining number of the product at the assigned shelf location is less than the predetermined restocking level for the product. | 08-13-2009 |
20090216632 | CUSTOMER REWARDING - The present invention provides an approach for rewarding customers for use of self-checkout stations and, optionally, for being self-sufficient in such use by not requiring retailer (employee) assistance. Specifically, the under the present invention, a set of service choices made by a customer during purchasing transactions are tracked. Such service choices include whether the customer elected to use self-checkout stations. In addition, a frequency of assistance needed by the customer during the purchasing transactions will be tracked. Such tracking can be accomplished using any known technology including the use of the customer loyalty cards that are assigned to specific customers. In any event, a reward can be offered to the customer if the customer elected to use self-checkout stations to complete at least a subset of the purchasing transactions, and/or if the frequency of assistance needed by the customer during the purchasing transactions fell below a predetermined threshold. | 08-27-2009 |
20090236419 | CONTROLLING SHOPPER CHECKOUT THROUGHPUT - The present invention provides a solution for controlling checkout throughput. Specifically, under the present invention a set of attributes of an item will be obtained. An analysis of the set of attributes will then be performed to determine whether an inconsistency exists based on a tolerance threshold. Such analysis can include, for example, comparing the weight of the item to its expected weight. This can help determine if a mistake has been made or fraud has been committed. Whether an inconsistency is observed is based on a tolerance threshold. For example, a certain deviation (i.e., the tolerance threshold) from an expected value could be allowed to could be allowed to reduce errors during the checkout process and thereby increase checkout throughput. As such, the present invention allows the tolerance threshold to be tuned based on a desired checkout throughput. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237232 | ALARM SOLUTION FOR SECURING SHOPPING CHECKOUT - Under the present invention, a single, overall alarm for an entire set of shopping items will be used for any and all discrepancies. The metric used for creating an alarm for the overall set of shopping items can be based on any one of the following candidate policies: if at least one item generated an alarm; if some fixed number of items generated an alarm; if some threshold discrepancy metric got exceed; if basket size is larger than certain threshold cash value and the alarm exceeded certain threshold alarm rate; a randomly generated alarm (e.g., random audit); the customer's identity and track record (e.g., loyalty card); and/or any combination of the above. Regardless, if an overall alarm is generated one or more of the following actions can be taken: no action send the customer to customer service; appropriately record customer track record (e.g., loyalty card) when customer identity is available; audit the customer at the “shop exit; and/or any combination of thereof. | 09-24-2009 |
20090238462 | DETECTION OF ABANDONED AND REMOVED OBJECTS IN A VIDEO STREAM - A method for processing a time-ordered sequence of video frames. The method is implemented by execution of program code on a processor of a computer system. Each frame includes a two-dimensional array of pixels and a frame-dependent color intensity at each pixel. A current frame and at least one frame occurring prior to the current frame in the sequence are analyzed via a background subtraction on the at least one frame to determine a background image and a static region mask associated with a static region. The background subtraction determines an existence of a static object relating to the static region. A status of the static object is determined, the status being either that the static object is an abandoned object or that the static object is a removed object. The determined status is stored in a data storage medium of the computer system. | 09-24-2009 |
20090244390 | REAL TIME PROCESSING OF VIDEO FRAMES FOR TRIGGERING AN ALERT - A method for real time processing of a sequence of video frames. The video frames are received in synchronization with a recording of the video frames in real time for triggering an alert. The method is implemented by execution of program code on a processor of a computer system. Each frame includes a two-dimensional array of pixels and a frame-dependent color intensity at each pixel. An algorithm determines whether a static object in a current frame of the video frames is an abandoned object or a removed object. The determined status, the current frame time, the static region, and the static object are stored in a data storage medium of the computer system. An alarm is triggered in response to satisfaction of requirements that include a persistence requirement, a non-persistence duration requirement, and a persistence duration requirement. | 10-01-2009 |
20090272801 | DETERRING CHECKOUT FRAUD - Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for deterring checkout fraud comprising a camera (e.g., still, video, etc.) that is located near (overhead) a scanner used to scan a barcode of an item being purchased. Specifically, the barcode of the item is scanned and an image of the item is recorded. It is then determined whether the identity of the item as determined based on the barcode is consistent with its appearance as determined from the image. If not, a discrepancy is registered. It is then determined whether the discrepancy is due to fraud (e.g., theft) or device error. In the case of the latter, the system can be updated to prevent a repeat of the error. In either event, the scan, the image and a shopping event corresponding to the scan and image can be logged for future analysis and/or learning. | 11-05-2009 |
20090304229 | OBJECT TRACKING USING COLOR HISTOGRAM AND OBJECT SIZE - A solution for monitoring an area uses color histograms and size information (e.g., heights and widths) for blob(s) identified in an image of the area and model(s) for existing object track(s) for the area. Correspondence(s) between the blob(s) and the object track(s) are determined using the color histograms and size information. Information on an object track is updated based on the type of correspondence(s). The solution can process merges, splits and occlusions of foreground objects as well as temporal and spatial fragmentations. | 12-10-2009 |
20090322881 | Video analysis, archiving and alerting methods and apparatus for a distributed, modular and extensible video surveillance system - Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing, managing and cataloguing video tracks generated by a video surveillance system. Systems and methods operating in accordance with the present invention receive video tracks from a video surveillance system; analyze them for particular categories of, for example, objects or events, assign unique identifying tags to the video tracks; and save them in highly-cross-referenced databases so that video tracks containing, for example, particular objects or events can be easily searched for and recalled. In addition, the present invention provides browsing facilities for viewing events that have just elapsed, events that are occurring in near real-time. | 12-31-2009 |
20100013656 | AREA MONITORING USING PROTOTYPICAL TRACKS - A solution for monitoring an area includes using a region schema for the area. The region schema can include a set of prototypical tracks, each of which includes a start location, an end location, and a trajectory. The trajectory comprises an expected path an object will travel between the start location and the end location and can include variation information that defines an amount that an object can vary from the trajectory. The region schema can be generated by obtaining training object tracking data for the area for an initialization time period and evaluating the object tracking data to identify the set of prototypical tracks. While monitoring the area, monitored object tracking data is obtained for a monitored object in the area, and abnormal behavior of the monitored object is identified when the monitored object tracking data for the monitored object does not follow at least one of the set of prototypical tracks in the region schema. | 01-21-2010 |
20100027875 | AUTOMATED LEARNING FOR PEOPLE COUNTING SYSTEMS - A system, method and program product for providing automated learning for a people counting system. A system is disclosed that includes a grid system for dividing a field of view (FOV) of a captured image data into a set of blocks; an object detection and tracking system for tracking a blob passing through the FOV; and a learning system that maintains person size parameters for each block and updates person size parameters for a selected block when a blob appears in the selected block. | 02-04-2010 |
20100030685 | TRANSACTION ANALYSIS - Under the present invention a transaction is processed and analyzed for potential fraud or error. Specifically, a description of a (proposed) transaction is accessed. Among other things, the description contains an expected set of events (e.g., derived from historical data). As the transaction is being performed a set of multimedia devices will record the same. The multimedia signal(s) from the set of devices will be analyzed to determine what event(s) actually took place. The actual event(s) will be compared to the expected event(s) to determine if any deviation/difference exists. If there is a difference, and it is beyond a predetermined tolerance, a notification can be generated. Regardless, a log of the activities will be kept. | 02-04-2010 |
20100054535 | Video Object Classification - Techniques for classifying one or more objects in at least one video, wherein the at least one video comprises a plurality of frames are provided. One or more objects in the plurality of frames are tracked. A level of deformation is computed for each of the one or more tracked objects in accordance with at least one change in a plurality of histograms of oriented gradients for a corresponding tracked object. Each of the one or more tracked objects is classified in accordance with the computed level of deformation. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054540 | Calibration of Video Object Classification - Techniques for calibrating a classification system, wherein one or more objects in at least one video are classified, are provided. At least one view associated with the at least one video is obtained. The at least one view is partitioned into at least one region. A given object is classified in accordance with its location in reference to the at least one region. In an additional embodiment, one or more object models are obtained. At least one normalized size of the one or more objects is defined within at least one view associated with the at least one video in accordance with the one or more object models. The one or more objects are classified in accordance with the at least one defined normalized size. | 03-04-2010 |
20100106707 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING ACCORDING TO ATTRIBUTES OF A PERSON - An approach that indexes and searches according to a set of attributes of a person is provided. In one embodiment, there is an extensible indexing and search tool, including an extraction component configured to extract a set of attributes of a person monitored by a set of sensors in a zone of interest. An index component is configured to index each of the set of attributes of the person within an index of an extensible indexing and search tool. A search component is configured to enable a search of the index of the extensible indexing and search tool according to at least one of the set of attributes of the person. | 04-29-2010 |
20100110183 | AUTOMATICALLY CALIBRATING REGIONS OF INTEREST FOR VIDEO SURVEILLANCE - Techniques for automatically calibrating one or more regions of interest for video surveillance are provided. The techniques include at a user-defined frequency, determining if one or more regions of interest (ROIs) are present within a field of view of a camera, if one or more ROIs are present within the field of view of the camera, automatically calibrating the one or more ROIs within the field of view of the camera, and if one or more ROIs are not present within the field of view of the camera, sending an alert to a user. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114623 | USING DETAILED PROCESS INFORMATION AT A POINT OF SALE - Techniques for using transactional and visual event information to facilitate loss prevention are provided. The techniques include obtaining video of one or more visual events at a point of sale environment and one or more transaction log entries that correspond to the video, wherein the one or more transaction log entries comprise one or more transactional events, categorizing each event as one of one or more model events, using each categorized event to create a revised transaction log, wherein the revised transaction log comprises a sequence of categorized events, wherein each categorized event is a combination of the one or more transactional events and the one or more visual events, examining the revised transaction log to correct one or more mis-categorizations, if any, and revise one or more model event categories with the one or more corrected mis-categorizations, if any, and using the revised transaction log to facilitate loss prevention. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114671 | CREATING A TRAINING TOOL - Techniques for creating a training technique for an individual are provided. The techniques include obtaining video of one or more events and information from a transaction log that corresponds to the one or more events, wherein the one or more events relate to one or more actions of an individual, classifying the one or more events into one or more event categories, comparing the one or more classified events with an enterprise best practices model to determine a degree of compliance, examining the one or more classified events to correct one or more misclassifications, if any, and revise the one or more event categories with the one or more corrected misclassifications, if any, and using the degree of compliance to create a training technique for the individual. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114746 | GENERATING AN ALERT BASED ON ABSENCE OF A GIVEN PERSON IN A TRANSACTION - Techniques for generating an alert based on absence of a given person in a transaction are provided. The techniques include monitoring, via video, a transaction, wherein the transaction includes presence of a given person in the transaction, relating the video of the transaction to a corresponding portion of a transaction log (TLOG), using the video and corresponding portion of the TLOG to detect if the given person in the transaction is present, and generating an alert if the given person is not present at the transaction. | 05-06-2010 |
20100124356 | DETECTING OBJECTS CROSSING A VIRTUAL BOUNDARY LINE - An approach that detects objects crossing a virtual boundary line is provided. Specifically, an object detection tool provides this capability. The object detection tool comprises a boundary component configured to define a virtual boundary line in a video region of interest, and establish a set of ground patch regions surrounding the virtual boundary line. The object detection tool further comprises an extraction component configured to extract a set of attributes from each of the set of ground patch regions, and update a ground patch history model with the set of attributes from each of the set of ground patch regions. An analysis component is configured to analyze the ground patch history model to detect whether an object captured in at least one of the set of ground patch regions is crossing the virtual boundary line in the video region of interest. | 05-20-2010 |
20100124357 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODEL BASED PEOPLE COUNTING - An approach that allows for model based people counting is provided. In one embodiment, there is a generating tool configured to generate a set of person-shape models based on results of a cumulative training process; a detecting tool configured to detect persons in a camera field-of-view by using the set of person-shape models, and a counting tool configured to track detected persons upon crossing by the detected persons of a previously established virtual boundary. | 05-20-2010 |
20100134619 | EVALUATING AN EFFECTIVENESS OF A MONITORING SYSTEM - An approach that evaluates an effectiveness of a monitoring system is provided. In one embodiment, there is a performance evaluation tool, including an evaluation component configured to receive visual media at a monitoring system monitored by a set of users, and evaluate a monitoring performance of the set of users in response to a simulated alert within the visual media. The performance evaluation tool further comprises an analysis component configured to predict an effectiveness of the monitoring system based on the performance of the set of users in response to the simulated alert within the visual media. | 06-03-2010 |
20100134624 | DETECTING PRIMITIVE EVENTS AT CHECKOUT - Techniques for detecting one or more events are provided. The techniques include identifying one or more segments in a video sequence as one or more candidates for one or more events by a temporal ordering of the one or more candidates, and analyzing one or more motion patterns of the one or more candidates to detect the one or more events. | 06-03-2010 |
20100134625 | LOCATION-AWARE EVENT DETECTION - Techniques for detecting one or more events are provided. The techniques include using one or more regions of interest on a video sequence to cover a location for one or more events, wherein each event is associated with at least one of the one or more regions of interest, applying multiple-instance learning to the video sequence to construct one or more location-aware event models, and applying the models to the video sequence to determine the one or more regions of interest that are associated with the one or more events. | 06-03-2010 |
20100135528 | ANALYZING REPETITIVE SEQUENTIAL EVENTS - Techniques for analyzing one or more sequential events performed by a human actor to evaluate efficiency of the human actor are provided. The techniques include identifying one or more segments in a video sequence as one or more components of one or more sequential events performed by a human actor, integrating the one or more components into one or more sequential events by incorporating a spatiotemporal model and one or more event detectors, and analyzing the one or more sequential events to analyze behavior of the human actor. | 06-03-2010 |
20100169169 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING TRANSACTION STATISTICS TO FACILITATE CHECKOUT VARIANCE INVESTIGATION - An approach that allows for facilitating checkout related fraud investigation is presented. In one embodiment, there is described a generating tool configured to generate a set of benchmark parameters based on results of a cumulative learning process; a normalizing tool configured to normalize said set of benchmark parameters; an establishing tool configured to establish a confidence time interval required for identifying normal variations; a recording tool configured to record a particular checker's transactions during said confidence time interval, and an identifying tool configured to identify transactions, recorded during said confidence time interval, that fail meeting said set of benchmark parameters. | 07-01-2010 |
20100238285 | IDENTIFYING SPATIAL LOCATIONS OF EVENTS WITHIN VIDEO IMAGE DATA - An invention for identifying a spatial location of an event within video image data is provided. In one embodiment, there is a spatial representation tool, including a compression component configured to receive trajectory data of an event within video image data, and generate a set of compressed spatial representation of the trajectory data of the event within the video image data. A database component is configured to input the set of compressed spatial representations into a relational database, and a search component is configured to search the relational database to identify a spatial location of the event within the video image data. | 09-23-2010 |
20100239016 | CODING SCHEME FOR IDENTIFYING SPATIAL LOCATIONS OF EVENTS WITHIN VIDEO IMAGE DATA - An invention for generating a coding schema for identifying a spatial location of an event within video image data is provided. In one embodiment, there is a spatial representation tool, including a compression component configured to receive trajectory data of an event within video image data, generate a lossless compressed contour-coded blob to encode the trajectory data of the event within video image data, and generate a lossy searchable code to enable searching of a relational database based on the trajectory data of the event within the video image data. | 09-23-2010 |
20100272349 | REAL-TIME ANNOTATION OF IMAGES IN A HUMAN ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENT - A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product annotate video images associated with an environmental situation based on detected actions of a human interacting with the environmental situation. A set of real-time video images are received that are captured by at least one video camera associated with an environment presenting one or more environmental situations to a human. One or more user actions made by the human that is associated with the set of real-time video images with respect to the environmental situation are monitored. A determination is made, based on the monitoring, that the human driver has one of performed and failed to perform at least one action associated with one or more images of the set of real-time video images. The one or more images of the set of real-time video images are annotated with a set of annotations. | 10-28-2010 |
20100282841 | VISUAL SECURITY FOR POINT OF SALE TERMINALS - Under the present invention, item verification is automated and expedited. Specifically, items to be purchased can be scanned by the shopper using a barcode reader (e.g., a scanner), attached to or positioned near the checkout station. As items are scanned, they are identified based on their barcode, and added to an item list. Item verification can then be performed at checkout using imaging technology. Specifically, as items are scanned, an item verification unit will capture an appearance thereof (via a camera). Item verification software within the item verification unit will access a database that associates items with their images/appearances. The appearance will be compared for consistency to the identity as determined based on the scan. In general, the item verification unit is a separate unit from the cash register, but adapted to work in conjunction therewith (e.g., as a pluggable system, via wireless communication, etc.). | 11-11-2010 |
20100284567 | SYSTEM AND PRACTICE FOR SURVEILLANCE PRIVACY-PROTECTION CERTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION - There is provided an apparatus for the certification of privacy compliance. The apparatus includes a registry of at least one of enrolled video surveillance operators, approved surveillance hardware devices, approved surveillance software programs, approved surveillance system installers, and approved entities that manage surveillance systems. The apparatus further includes a registry searcher, in signal communication with the registry, for receiving queries to the registry, and for determining whether at least one of a particular surveillance operator, a particular surveillance hardware device, a particular surveillance software program, a particular surveillance system installer, and a particular entity that manages a particular surveillance system is on the registry based on a given query. | 11-11-2010 |
20100296704 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING VIDEO FROM NON-STATIC CAMERA - A novel system and method of treating the output of moving cameras, in particular ones that enable the application of conventional “static camera” algorithms, e.g., to enable the continuous vigilance of computer surveillance technology to be applied to moving cameras that cover a wide area. According to the invention, a single camera is deployed to cover an area that might require many static cameras and a corresponding number of processing units. A novel system for processing the main video sufficiently enables long-term change detection, particularly the observation that a static object has been moved or has appeared, for instance detecting the parking and departure of vehicles in a parking lot, the arrival of trains in stations, delivery of goods, arrival and dispersal of people, or any other application. | 11-25-2010 |
20110211070 | Video Analysis, Archiving and Alerting Methods and Appartus for a Distributed, Modular and Extensible Video Surveillance System - Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing, managing and cataloguing video tracks generated by a video surveillance system. Systems and methods operating in accordance with the present invention receive video tracks from a video surveillance system; analyze them for particular categories of, for example, objects or events, assign unique identifying tags to the video tracks; and save them in highly-cross-referenced databases so that video tracks containing, for example, particular objects or events can be easily searched for and recalled. In addition, the present invention provides browsing facilities for viewing events that have just elapsed, events that are occurring in near real-time. | 09-01-2011 |
20120026335 | Attribute-Based Person Tracking Across Multiple Cameras - Techniques for tracking an individual across two or more cameras are provided. The techniques include detecting an image of one or more individuals in each of two or more cameras, tracking each of the one or more individuals in a field of view in each of the two or more cameras, applying a set of one or more attribute detectors to each of the one or more individuals being tracked by the two or more cameras, and using the set of one or more attribute detectors to match an individual tracked in one of the two or more cameras with an individual tracked in one or more other cameras of the two or more cameras. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027248 | Foreground Analysis Based on Tracking Information - Techniques for performing foreground analysis are provided. The techniques include identifying a region of interest in a video scene, applying a background subtraction algorithm to the region of interest to detect a static foreground object in the region of interest, and determining whether the static foreground object is abandoned or removed, wherein determining whether the static foreground object is abandoned or removed comprises performing a foreground analysis based on edge energy and region growing, and pruning one or more false alarms using one or more track statistics. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027249 | Multispectral Detection of Personal Attributes for Video Surveillance - Techniques for detecting an attribute in video surveillance include generating training sets of multispectral images, generating a group of multispectral box features comprising receiving input of a detector size of a width and height, a number of spectral bands in the multispectral images, and integer values representing a minimum and maximum width and height of multispectral box features, fixing a feature width and to height, generating feature building blocks with the fixed width and height, placing a feature building block at a same location for each spectral band level, and enumerating combinations of the feature building blocks through each spectral level until all sizes within the integer values have been covered, and wherein each combination determines a multispectral box feature, using the training sets to select multispectral box features to generate a multispectral attribute detector, and using the multispectral attribute detector to identify a location of an attribute in video surveillance. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027304 | SEMANTIC PARSING OF OBJECTS IN VIDEO - The invention provides an improved method to detect semantic attributes of human body in computer vision. In detecting semantic attributes of human body in computer vision, the invention maintains a list of semantic attributes, each of which corresponds to a human body part. A computer module then analyzes segments of a frame of a digital video to detect each semantic attribute by finding a most likely attribute for each segment. A threshold is applied to select candidate segments of the frame for further analysis. The candidate segments of the frame then go through geometric and resolution context analysis by applying the physical structure principles of a human body and by analyzing increasingly higher resolution versions of the image to verify the existence and accuracy of parts and attributes. A computer module computes a resolution context score for a lower resolution version of the image based on a weighted average score computed for a higher resolution version of the image by evaluating appearance features, geometric features, and resolution context features when available on the higher resolution version of the image. Finally, an optimal configuration step is performed via dynamic programming to select an optimal output with both semantic attributes and spatial positions of human body parts on the frame. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030208 | Facilitating People Search in Video Surveillance - Techniques for facilitating a video surveillance search of a person are provided. The techniques include maintaining a database of one or more attributes of one or more people captured on one or more video cameras, indexing the one or more attributes in the database extracted from the one or more video cameras, and pruning one or more images captured from the one or more video cameras using the one or more attributes and one or more items of qualifying information to facilitate a video surveillance search of a person. | 02-02-2012 |
20120121170 | OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON A POOL OF ADAPTIVE FEATURES - A method, system and computer program product for detecting presence of an object in an image are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a method for detecting a presence of an object in an image comprises: receiving multiple training image samples; determining a set of adaptive features for each training image sample, the set of adaptive features matching the local structure of each training image sample; integrating the sets of adaptive features of the multiple training image samples to generate an adaptive feature pool; determining a general feature based on the adaptive feature pool; and examining the image using a classifier determined based on the general feature to detect the presence of the object. | 05-17-2012 |
20120130759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK OPTIMIZED, SPATIALLY SENSITIVE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT - A preventative maintenance method and a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters such as failure history combined with causative factors like weather and independent external risk factors such as vandalism and risk of flooding. The present invention may further have a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters, such as failure history combined with causative factors such as weather and independent external risk factors like vandalism and risk of flooding having a location based asset/service failure risk estimator, an external risk estimates database for feeding and an integrated failure risk database, the external risk estimates database feeding the integrated failure risk database. | 05-24-2012 |
20120134527 | HAZARD DETECTION FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT - An approach that detects locations of hazardous conditions within an infrastructure is provided. This approach uses satellite imagery, GIS data, automatic image processing, and predictive modeling to determine the location of the hazards automatically, thus optimizing infrastructure management. Specifically, a hazard detection tool provides this capability. The hazard detection tool comprises a detection component configured to: receive visual media containing asset location data about a set of physical assets, and hazard location data about potential hazards within a vicinity of each of the set of physical assets. The detection component further receives graphical information system (GIS) data containing asset location data about each of the set of physical assets. The hazard detection tool further comprises an analysis component configured to: analyze the visual media to determine if a hazardous condition exists for each of the set of physical assets; and apply the GIS data to the visual media to determine a location of hazardous conditions within the infrastructure. | 05-31-2012 |
20120154579 | Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects - Techniques for performing visual surveillance of one or more moving objects are provided. The techniques include registering one or more images captured by one or more cameras, wherein registering the one or more images comprises region-based registration of the one or more images in two or more adjacent frames, performing motion segmentation of the one or more images to detect one or more moving objects and one or more background regions in the one or more images, and tracking the one or more moving objects to facilitate visual surveillance of the one or more moving objects. | 06-21-2012 |
20120173300 | INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT - An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAILURE ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS - A system and method for mining the failure association rules of geographically dispersed physical assets is provided. One approach of the present invention has steps of joining input data sources, extracting spatio-temporal (ST) information, quantilizing ST continuous value in automated manner, or based on pre-built knowledge, applying association rule mining algorithm to find associations between attributes and failure and outputting identified ST failure association rules. | 07-05-2012 |
20120189164 | RULE-BASED COMBINATION OF A HIERARCHY OF CLASSIFIERS FOR OCCLUSION DETECTION - A person detection system includes a face detector configured to detect a face in an input video sequence, the face detector outputting a face keyframe to be stored if a face is detected; and a person detector configured to detect a person in the input video sequence if the face detector fails to detect a face, the person detector outputting a person keyframe to be stored, if a person is detected in the input video sequence. | 07-26-2012 |
20120213413 | REAL-TIME ANNOTATION OF IMAGES IN A HUMAN ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENT - A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product annotate video images associated with an environmental situation based on detected actions of a human interacting with the environmental situation. A set of real-time video images are received that are captured by at least one video camera associated with an environment presenting one or more environmental situations to a human. One or more user actions made by the human that is associated with the set of real-time video images with respect to the environmental situation are monitored. A determination is made, based on the monitoring, that the human driver has one of performed and failed to perform at least one action associated with one or more images of the set of real-time video images. The one or more images of the set of real-time video images are annotated with a set of annotations. | 08-23-2012 |
20120218414 | Location-Aware Event Detection - Techniques for detecting one or more events are provided. The techniques include using multiple overlapping regions of interest on a video sequence to cover a location for one or more events, wherein each event is associated with at least one of the multiple overlapping regions of interest, applying multiple-instance learning to the video sequence to select one or more of the multiple overlapping regions of interest to construct one or more location-aware event models, and applying the models to the video sequence to detect the one or more events and to determine the one or more regions of interest that are associated with the one or more events. | 08-30-2012 |
20120257793 | VIDEO OBJECT CLASSIFICATION - Techniques for classifying one or more objects in at least one video, wherein the at least one video comprises a plurality of frames are provided. One or more objects in the plurality of frames are tracked. A level of deformation is computed for each of the one or more tracked objects in accordance with at least one change in a plurality of histograms of oriented gradients for a corresponding tracked object. Each of the one or more tracked objects is classified in accordance with the computed level of deformation. | 10-11-2012 |
20120315920 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING SPATIOTEMPORALLY AMBIGUOUS EVENTS - Principles of the invention provide techniques for analyzing spatiotemporally ambiguous events. In one aspect, an exemplary method includes the steps of storing event data representative of an event, the event data comprising spatiotemporally ambiguous measurements; storing side information, the side information comprising at least one of spatial data and temporal data related to the event in space-time: associating the event data with the side information by soft association to form association data; applying one or more estimation techniques to the association data to form estimation data; and determining at least one of a rate, a factor, a likelihood, a value, a time, a location, and a cause for the event by applying one or more characterization techniques to the estimation data. | 12-13-2012 |
20120320269 | REAL TIME PROCESSING OF VIDEO FRAMES FOR TRIGGERING AN ALERT - A method and system for real time processing of a sequence of video frames. A current frame in the sequence and at least one frame in the sequence occurring prior to the current frame is analyzed. Each frame includes a two-dimensional array of pixels. The sequence of video frames is received in synchronization with a recording of the video frames in real time. The analyzing includes performing a background subtraction on the at least one frame, which determines a background image and a static region mask associated with a static region consisting of a contiguous distribution of pixels in the current frame. The static region mask identifies each pixel in the static region upon the static region mask being superimposed on the current frame. The background image includes the array of pixels and a background model of the at least one frame and does not include any moving object. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327246 | Automatic Multiscale Image Acquisition from a Steerable Camera - A system for automatically acquiring high-resolution images by steering a pan-tilt-zoom camera at targets detected in a fixed camera view is provided. The system uses automatic or manual calibration between multiple cameras. Using automatic calibration, the homography between the cameras in a home position is estimated together with the effects of pan and tilt controls and the expected height of a person in the image. These calibrations are chained together to steer a slave camera. The manual calibration scheme steers a camera to the desired region of interest and calculates the pan, tile and zoom parameters accordingly. | 12-27-2012 |
20130002866 | Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects - Techniques for performing visual surveillance of one or more moving objects are provided. The techniques include registering one or more images captured by one or more cameras, wherein registering the one or more images comprises region-based registration of the one or more images in two or more adjacent frames, performing motion segmentation of the one or more images to detect one or more moving objects and one or more background regions in the one or more images, and tracking the one or more moving objects to facilitate visual surveillance of the one or more moving objects. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013640 | MINING GENERALIZED SPATIAL ASSOCATION RULE - A system, method and computer program product for mining a rule including spatial information and non-spatial information by using a SAR (Spatial Association Rule) mining tool. The computing system is configured to construct an expanded spatial predicate transaction table for reference spatial objects and a generalized taxonomy for task-relevant spatial objects. The computing system is configured to run the SAR mining tool with the constructed expanded spatial predicate transaction and the generalized taxonomy. The computing system outputs, from the SAR mining tool, a set of generalized spatial association rules for the reference spatial objects. The generalized spatial association rule includes the spatial information and non-spatial information, associated with both the reference spatial objects and the task-relevant spatial objects. | 01-10-2013 |
20130041705 | DISTRIBUTION NETWORK MAINTENANCE PLANNING - A system, method and computer program product for maintaining an infrastructure of components. The system receives structured data, unstructured data, and infrastructure data from a database. The system runs at least one statistical and optimization modeler with one or more of: the received structured data, the received unstructured data and the received infrastructure data, in order to calculate a health index of at least one component of the infrastructure. The health index represents a health attribute of the at least one component. The system establishes at least one maintenance plan of the infrastructure, based on the calculated health index. Each established maintenance plan is associated with at least one health index. The system compares health indices of the at least one established maintenance plan. The system selects a plan, among the at least one established maintenance plan, whose health index is a maximum among the compared health indices. | 02-14-2013 |
20130177249 | Semantic Parsing of Objects in Video - Techniques, systems, and computer program products for parsing objects in a video are provided herein. A method includes producing and storing a plurality of versions of an image of an object derived from a video input, wherein each version of said image has a different resolution of said image; computing an appearance score at each of a plurality of regions on the lowest resolution version of said image for a plurality of semantic attributes with associated parts for said object, said appearance score denoting a probability of each semantic attribute appearing in the region; analyzing increasingly higher resolution versions than the lowest resolution version to compute a resolution context score for each region in the lowest resolution version; and ascertaining an optimized configuration of body parts and associated semantic attributes in the lowest resolution version, said ascertaining utilizing the appearance scores and the resolution context scores. | 07-11-2013 |
20130243254 | Foreground Analysis Based on Tracking Information - Techniques for performing foreground analysis are provided. The techniques include identifying a region of interest in a video scene, detecting a static foreground object in the region of interest, and determining whether the static foreground object is abandoned or removed, wherein said determining comprises performing a foreground analysis based on tracking information and pruning one or more false alarms using one or more track statistics. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243256 | Multispectral Detection of Personal Attributes for Video Surveillance - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for multispectral detection of attributes for video surveillance. A method includes generating one or more training sets of one or more multispectral images, generating a group of one or more multispectral box features, using the one or more training sets to select one or more of the one or more multispectral box features to generate a multispectral attribute detector, and using the multispectral attribute detector to identify a location of an attribute in video surveillance, wherein using the multispectral attribute detector comprises, for one or more locations on each spectral band level of the multispectral image, applying the multispectral attribute detector and producing an output indicating attribute detection or an output indicating no attribute detection, and wherein the attribute corresponds to the multispectral attribute detector. | 09-19-2013 |
20130251275 | CALIBRATION OF VIDEO OBJECT CLASSIFICATION - Techniques for calibrating a classification system, wherein one or more objects in at least one video are classified, are provided. At least one view associated with the at least one video is obtained. The at least one view is partitioned into at least one region. A given object is classified in accordance with its location in reference to the at least one region. In an additional embodiment, one or more object models are obtained. At least one normalized size of the one or more objects is defined within at least one view associated with the at least one video in accordance with the one or more object models. The one or more objects are classified in accordance with the at least one defined normalized size. | 09-26-2013 |
20130259316 | IDENTIFYING SPATIAL LOCATIONS OF EVENTS WITHIN VIDEO IMAGE DATA - An invention for identifying a spatial location of an event within video image data is provided. Disclosed are embodiments for generating trajectory data of a trajectory of an object for a plurality of pixel regions of an area of interest within video image data, the generating comprising: identifying one or more pixel regions from the plurality of pixel regions containing trajectory data; performing a multi-point neighborhood scan within the one or more pixel regions from the plurality of pixel regions containing trajectory data; and generating a transition chain code based on the multi-point neighborhood scan. Embodiments further generate a set of compressed spatial representations of the trajectory data of the trajectory of the object for an event based on the transition chain code, and generate a lossless contour code of the trajectory data of the trajectory of the object for the event based on the transition chain code. | 10-03-2013 |
20130271289 | ANOMALY DETECTION USING USAGE DATA FOR METERING SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for detecting anomalies in a metering system. In one embodiment, data representing usage of a defined commodity are collected from meters, and the data collected over a given time period are analyzed to identify any of the meters showing at least one defined type of anomalous usage pattern. For each of the meters showing an anomalous usage patterns, an anomaly score is determined for the usage pattern shown, and the anomaly scores are used to rank the meters. In one embodiment, the collected data are analyzed to identify any of the meters showing one or more of a group of types of anomalous patterns including meter-no-reading, meter-by-pass, and meter-silting patterns. Embodiments of the invention utilize time series techniques and data analysis on meter reading data. Further, embodiments of the invention require no additional installation of equipment or sensors. | 10-17-2013 |
20130308868 | Semantic Parsing of Objects in Video - Methods, systems, and computer program products for parsing objects in a video are provided herein. A method includes producing a plurality of versions of an image of an object, wherein each version has a different resolution of said image of said object, and computing an appearance score at each of a plurality of regions on the lowest resolution version for at least one semantic attribute for said object. Such a method also includes analyzing one or more other versions to compute a resolution context score for each of the plurality of regions in the lowest resolution version, wherein said resolution context score denotes an extent to which finer spatial structure exists in the one or more others versions than in the lowest resolution version, and determining a configuration of the at least one semantic attribute in the lowest resolution version based on the appearance score and the resolution context score. | 11-21-2013 |
20130336534 | MULTI-MODE VIDEO EVENT INDEXING - Multi-mode video event indexing includes determining a quality of object distinctiveness with respect to images from a video stream input. A high-quality analytic mode is selected from multiple modes and applied to video input images via a hardware device to determine object activity within the video input images if the determined level of detected quality of object distinctiveness meets a threshold level of quality, else a low-quality analytic mode is selected and applied to the video input images via a hardware device to determine object activity within the video input images, wherein the low-quality analytic mode is different from the high-quality analytic mode. | 12-19-2013 |
20130336535 | MULTI-MODE VIDEO EVENT INDEXING - Multi-mode video event indexing includes determining a quality of object distinctiveness with respect to images from a video stream input. A high-quality analytic mode is selected from multiple modes and applied to video input images via a hardware device to determine object activity within the video input images if the determined level of detected quality of object distinctiveness meets a threshold level of quality, else a low-quality analytic mode is selected and applied to the video input images via a hardware device to determine object activity within the video input images, wherein the low-quality analytic mode is different from the high-quality analytic mode. | 12-19-2013 |
20140028845 | CODING SCHEME FOR IDENTIFYING SPATIAL LOCATIONS OF EVENTS WITHIN VIDEO IMAGE DATA - An approach for generating a coding schema for identifying a spatial location of an event within video image data is provided. In one embodiment, there is a spatial representation tool, including a compression component configured to receive trajectory data of a trajectory of an object for an event within video image data; generate a lossless compressed contour-coded blob to encode the trajectory data of the trajectory of the object for the event within video image data; generate a lossy searchable code of the trajectory of the object for the event within the video image data; convert a region of interest within the video image data to a lossy query code, the region of interest corresponding to a sub-section of a visual display output of the video image data; and compare the lossy query code to the lossy searchable code within a relational database to identify a corresponding lossless trajectory data of the trajectory of the object for the event within the video image data. | 01-30-2014 |
20140050356 | MULTI-MODE VIDEO EVENT INDEXING - Multi-mode video event indexing includes determining a quality of object distinctiveness with respect to images from a video stream input. A high-quality analytic mode is selected from multiple modes and applied to video input images via a hardware device to determine object activity within the video input images if the determined level of detected quality of object distinctiveness meets a threshold level of quality, else a low-quality analytic mode is selected and applied to the video input images via a hardware device to determine object activity within the video input images, wherein the low-quality analytic mode is different from the high-quality analytic mode. | 02-20-2014 |
20140085479 | ASSET TRACKING AND MONITORING ALONG A TRANSPORT ROUTE - A system and computer program product for tracking and monitoring assets along a transport route. The system includes at least one receiver for receiving asset identifications transmitted from the assets, where each asset transmits its own asset identification. The receiver also receives physical location coordinates of each of the assets. A plurality of cameras is dispersed along the transport route for transmitting camera images of the assets. The system further includes a server coupled to the receiver and cameras. The server is configured to recognize the assets in the camera images, to correlate the asset identification from the receiver with recognized assets in the camera images, and to correlate the physical location coordinates of each of the assets with physical location coordinates of the cameras. The system monitors the visual appearance of the assets, and keeps track of whether or not they have sustained physical damage. | 03-27-2014 |
20140105459 | LOCATION-AWARE EVENT DETECTION - Techniques for detecting one or more events are provided. The techniques include using multiple overlapping regions of interest on a video sequence to cover a location for one or more events, wherein each event is associated with at least one of the multiple overlapping regions of interest, applying multiple-instance learning to the video sequence to select one or more of the multiple overlapping regions of interest to construct one or more location-aware event models, and applying the models to the video sequence to detect the one or more events and to determine the one or more regions of interest that are associated with the one or more events. | 04-17-2014 |
20140164389 | MINING TRAJECTORY FOR SPATIAL TEMPORAL ANALYTICS - Embodiments relate to generating a trajectory heat map at an aggregated level using computed transit points is provided. An aspect includes generating, by a processing device, a trajectory database from time-stamped global positioning system (GPS) sample points. According to exemplary embodiments, transit points are computed for each trajectory in the trajectory database. A temporal transit graph is constructed from the transit points. The transit graph of embodiments captures the shortest paths among these transit points. The transit graph is then indexed and stored in a spatial-temporal database for online analytic processing. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164390 | MINING TRAJECTORY FOR SPATIAL TEMPORAL ANALYTICS - Embodiments relate to generating a trajectory heat map at an aggregated level using computed transit points is provided. An aspect includes generating, by a processing device, a trajectory database from time-stamped global positioning system (GPS) sample points. According to exemplary embodiments, transit points are computed for each trajectory in the trajectory database. A temporal transit graph is constructed from the transit points. The transit graph of embodiments captures the shortest paths among these transit points. The transit graph is then indexed and stored in a spatial-temporal database for online analytic processing. | 06-12-2014 |
20140185937 | Semantic Parsing of Objects in Video - Methods, systems, and computer program products for parsing objects in a video are provided herein. A method includes producing a plurality of versions of an image of an object, wherein each version has a different resolution of said image of said object, and computing an appearance score at each of a plurality of regions on the lowest resolution version for at least one attribute for said object. Such a method also includes analyzing one or more other versions to compute a resolution context score for each of the plurality of regions in the lowest resolution version, and determining a configuration of the at least one semantic attribute in the lowest resolution version based on the appearance score and the resolution context score. | 07-03-2014 |
20140200827 | RAILWAY TRACK GEOMETRY DEFECT MODELING FOR PREDICTING DETERIORATION, DERAILMENT RISK, AND OPTIMAL REPAIR - Geo-defect repair modeling is provided. A method includes logically dividing a railroad network according to spatial and temporal dimensions with respect to historical data collected. The spatial dimensions include line segments of a specified length and the temporal dimensions include inspection run data for inspections performed for each of the line segments over a period of time. The method also includes creating a track deterioration model from the historical data, identifying geo-defects occurring at each inspection run from the track deterioration model, calculating a track deterioration condition from the track deterioration model by analyzing quantified changes in the geo-defects measured at each inspection run, and calculating a derailment risk based on track conditions determined from the inspection run data and the track deterioration condition. The method further includes determining a repair decision for each of the geo-defects based on the derailment risk and costs associated with previous comparable repairs. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200828 | ASSET FAILURE PREDICTION WITH LOCATION UNCERTAINTY - Geo-defect repair modeling with location uncertainty is provided. A method includes logically dividing a railroad network into segments each of a specified length. The method also includes identifying, via a computer processor, geo-defects and approximated locations of the geo-defects occurring at each inspection run for each of the segments. The method also includes calculating, via the computer processor, a rate of increase in amplitude of each of the geo-defects for each of the segments between inspection runs, determining a correlation of the geo-defects between the inspection runs as a function of the approximated locations, and predicting a deterioration rate for each of the geo-defects based on the calculating. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200829 | ASSET FAILURE PREDICTION WITH LOCATION UNCERTAINTY - Geo-defect repair modeling with location uncertainty is provided. A method includes logically dividing a railroad network into segments each of a specified length. The method also includes identifying, via a computer processor, geo-defects and approximated locations of the geo-defects occurring at each inspection run for each of the segments. The method also includes calculating, via the computer processor, a rate of increase in amplitude of each of the geo-defects for each of the segments between inspection runs, determining a correlation of the geo-defects between the inspection runs as a function of the approximated locations, and predicting a deterioration rate for each of the geo-defects based on the calculating. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200830 | RAILWAY TRACK GEOMETRY DEFECT MODELING FOR PREDICTING DETERIORATION, DERAILMENT RISK, AND OPTIMAL REPAIR - Geo-defect repair modeling is provided. A method includes logically dividing a railroad network according to spatial and temporal dimensions with respect to historical data collected. The spatial dimensions include line segments of a specified length and the temporal dimensions include inspection run data for inspections performed for each of the line segments over a period of time. The method also includes creating a track deterioration model from the historical data, identifying geo-defects occurring at each inspection run from the track deterioration model, calculating a track deterioration condition from the track deterioration model by analyzing quantified changes in the geo-defects measured at each inspection run, and calculating a derailment risk based on track conditions determined from the inspection run data and the track deterioration condition. The method further includes determining a repair decision for each of the geo-defects based on the derailment risk and costs associated with previous comparable repairs. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200869 | LARGE-SCALE MULTI-DETECTOR PREDICTIVE MODELING - Predicting operational changes in a multi-detector environment includes generating, via a computer processing device, a factor matrix for each univariate time series data in a set of sparse time series data collected from data sources, identifying a subset of the time series data as a feature selection based on application of a loss function, and generating a predictive model from the subset of the time series data. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200870 | LARGE-SCALE MULTI-DETECTOR PREDICTIVE MODELING - Predicting operational changes in a multi-detector environment includes generating, via a computer processing device, a factor matrix for each univariate time series data in a set of sparse time series data collected from data sources, identifying a subset of the time series data as a feature selection based on application of a loss function, and generating a predictive model from the subset of the time series data. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200872 | ONLINE LEARNING USING INFORMATION FUSION FOR EQUIPMENT PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE IN RAILWAY OPERATIONS - An aspect of an online learning system includes collecting data, via a computer processing device, from a plurality of data sources including multiple disparate detectors, the data including at least one of historical alarm data, failures, maintenance records, and environment observations. The data is stored in tables each corresponding to a subject of measurement. The online learning system also includes identifying common fields shared across the tables, merging at least a portion of the data across the tables having the common fields, and creating an integrated data model based on results of the merging. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200873 | ONLINE LEARNING USING INFORMATION FUSION FOR EQUIPMENT PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE IN RAILWAY OPERATIONS - An aspect of an online learning system includes collecting data, via a computer processing device, from a plurality of data sources including multiple disparate detectors, the data including at least one of historical alarm data, failures, maintenance records, and environment observations. The data is stored in tables each corresponding to a subject of measurement. The online learning system also includes identifying common fields shared across the tables, merging at least a portion of the data across the tables having the common fields, and creating an integrated data model based on results of the merging. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200951 | SCALABLE RULE LOGICALIZATION FOR ASSET HEALTH PREDICTION - An aspect of scalable rule logicalization for asset health management includes aggregating data, via a computer processing device, from data sources, extracting a set of features from the data, projecting the features to a lower dimensional space, generating a prediction based on the projecting, logicalizing a decision boundary for the prediction, and estimating a confidence level of the prediction based on the decision boundary. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200952 | SCALABLE RULE LOGICALIZATION FOR ASSET HEALTH PREDICTION - An aspect of scalable rule logicalization for asset health management includes aggregating data, via a computer processing device, from data sources, extracting a set of features from the data, projecting the features to a lower dimensional space, generating a prediction based on the projecting, logicalizing a decision boundary for the prediction, and estimating a confidence level of the prediction based on the decision boundary. | 07-17-2014 |
20140236650 | INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT - An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. | 08-21-2014 |
20140278654 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL APPROACH TO SCHEDULING FIELD OPERATIONS - A method for creating a spatio-temporal schedule includes receiving a set of available work crews and a set of workorders to be scheduled, sequencing the set of workorders, wherein each workorder of the set of workorders is associated with a geographic location, a start time and an end time, and iterating through the set of available work crews, assigning a plurality of workorders of the set of workorders fully allocating a current crew before selecting a next crew, until all work crews are fully allocated and/or all workorders are assigned, wherein the assignment of workorders for a given work crew generates a route comprising the plurality of workorders. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281713 | MULTI-STAGE FAILURE ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION - A hierarchical multi-stage model of asset failure risk for complex heterogeneously distributed physical assets is built. The hierarchical multi-stage model considers heterogeneity of failure patterns for the assets. At least one data stream is analyzed to determine whether the hierarchical multi-stage model needs to be updated due to a change in the failure patterns. If the analysis indicates that the hierarchical multi-stage model needs to be updated, the hierarchical multi-stage model is dynamically updated to obtain an updated hierarchical multi-stage model. | 09-18-2014 |
20140330600 | Performance Driven Municipal Asset Needs and Sustainability Analysis - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for providing performance driven municipal asset needs and sustainability analysis. The method includes calculating asset health scores for a plurality of assets in an infrastructure. The asset health scores change as a function of time. The method also includes identifying prescription options for the assets. The identifying is based on the asset health scores. The prescription options include cost, value, and time for execution. A multi-objective optimization is applied based on the asset health scores and prescription options to identify at least a subset of the prescription options that may be implemented within a provided budget to maintain a sustainability threshold for an overall infrastructure health score. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330609 | Performance Driven Municipal Asset Needs and Sustainability Analysis - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for providing performance driven municipal asset needs and sustainability analysis. The method includes calculating asset health scores for a plurality of assets in an infrastructure. The asset health scores change as a function of time. The method also includes identifying prescription options for the assets. The identifying is based on the asset health scores. The prescription options include cost, value, and time for execution. A multi-objective optimization is applied based on the asset health scores and prescription options to identify at least a subset of the prescription options that may be implemented within a provided budget to maintain a sustainability threshold for an overall infrastructure health score. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330744 | ANALYTIC SOLUTION INTEGRATION - Embodiments relate analytic solution integration. According to an aspect, a method for analytic solution integration includes establishing an engine abstraction layer configured to interface with a plurality of analytic engines associated with a plurality of models. A services layer is interfaced with the engine abstraction layer to provide a communication interface to invoke the analytic engines associated with the models. A user interface is provided to the services layer. The user interface is configured to define an analytic solution as an executable sequence of one or more of the models. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330745 | ANALYTIC SOLUTION INTEGRATION - Embodiments relate analytic solution integration. According to an aspect, a method for analytic solution integration includes establishing an engine abstraction layer configured to interface with a plurality of analytic engines associated with a plurality of models. A services layer is interfaced with the engine abstraction layer to provide a communication interface to invoke the analytic engines associated with the models. A user interface is provided to the services layer. The user interface is configured to define an analytic solution as an executable sequence of one or more of the models. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330746 | STOCHASTIC INVESTMENT PLANNING SYSTEM - Embodiments relate to stochastic investment planning. One aspect includes receiving a plurality of constraints associated with projects to be performed by a plurality of agencies. The constraints are compared across the projects to identify projects having a spatial overlap and compatible project types. Two or more of the projects are combined based on compatibility of the projects having the spatial overlap. An optimization model is applied to the combined projects to produce an optimization parameter representing a critical attribute based on at least one uncertainty of the combined projects. The comparing, the combining, and the applying of the optimization model are iteratively repeated while varying a threshold for combining the projects until the optimization parameter is determined to be within an acceptable range. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330747 | ASSET LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the invention relate to asset lifecycle management. A method includes assessing a current health condition of a plurality of assets that are managed by a plurality of different entities. Predictive analytics are applied to determine a predicted future health condition of the assets. Prescription options for the assets are determined based on the current health condition and the predicted future health condition of the assets. Each prescription option specifies an asset, a timeframe, an expected cost, and an expected future health condition of the asset. Spatial and temporal analytics are performed to combine individual prescription options into a unified project. The unified project includes prescription options that specify assets that are managed by at least two of the entities. A timeframe to execute the unified project is determined based on financial constraints and spatial constraints. The unified project plan is output. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330748 | STOCHASTIC INVESTMENT PLANNING SYSTEM - Embodiments relate to stochastic investment planning. One aspect includes receiving a plurality of constraints associated with projects to be performed by a plurality of agencies. The constraints are compared across the projects to identify projects having a spatial overlap and compatible project types. Two or more of the projects are combined based on compatibility of the projects having the spatial overlap. An optimization model is applied to the combined projects to produce an optimization parameter representing a critical attribute based on at least one uncertainty of the combined projects. The comparing, the combining, and the applying of the optimization model are iteratively repeated while varying a threshold for combining the projects until the optimization parameter is determined to be within an acceptable range. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330749 | ASSET LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the invention relate to asset lifecycle management. A method includes assessing a current health condition of a plurality of assets that are managed by a plurality of different entities. Predictive analytics are applied to determine a predicted future health condition of the assets. Prescription options for the assets are determined based on the current health condition and the predicted future health condition of the assets. Each prescription option specifies an asset, a timeframe, an expected cost, and an expected future health condition of the asset. Spatial and temporal analytics are performed to combine individual prescription options into a unified project. The unified project includes prescription options that specify assets that are managed by at least two of the entities. A timeframe to execute the unified project is determined based on financial constraints and spatial constraints. The unified project plan is output. | 11-06-2014 |
20140353372 | SMART SCANNING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a smart scanning system comprising an integrated scanning and image capture system in which one or more image capture device(s) (e.g., still camera, video camera, etc.) and a barcode scanner are positioned within a common enclosure that is a component of a checkout station. The barcode of item is scanned and an image of the item is recorded. The identity of the item as determined based on the barcode is compared to its appearance as determined based on its image. If the identity is inconsistent with its appearance, a discrepancy is registered. It is then determined whether the discrepancy is due to fraud (e.g., theft) or device error. In the case of the latter, the system can be updated to prevent a repeat of the error. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365269 | FAILURE PREDICTION BASED PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE PLANNING ON ASSET NETWORK SYSTEM - There are provided a method, a system and a computer program product for maintaining an asset. The system receives data associated with an one asset and other assets to which the one asset is directly or indirectly physically connected. The system determines, based on the received data, a dependency between the one asset and one or more of the other assets. The system predicts, based on the determined dependency, a failure of the one asset within a future time period. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365422 | FAILURE PREDICTION BASED PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE PLANNING ON ASSET NETWORK SYSTEM - A method for maintaining an asset. The method receives data associated with an one asset and other assets to which the one asset is directly or indirectly physically connected. The method determines, based on the received data, a dependency between the one asset and one or more of the other assets. The method predicts, based on the determined dependency, a failure of the one asset within a future time period. | 12-11-2014 |
20150015606 | HAZARD DETECTION FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT - An approach that detects locations of hazardous conditions within an infrastructure is provided. This approach uses satellite imagery, GIS data, automatic image processing, and predictive modeling to determine the location of the hazards automatically, thus optimizing infrastructure management. Specifically, a hazard detection tool provides this capability. The hazard detection tool comprises a detection component configured to: receive visual media containing asset location data about a set of physical assets, and hazard location data about potential hazards within a vicinity of each of the set of physical assets. The detection component further receives graphical information system (GIS) data containing asset location data about each of the set of physical assets. The hazard detection tool further comprises an analysis component configured to: analyze the visual media to determine if a hazardous condition exists for each of the set of physical assets; and apply the GIS data to the visual media to determine a location of hazardous conditions within the infrastructure. | 01-15-2015 |
20150015717 | INSIGHT-DRIVEN AUGMENTED AUTO-COORDINATION OF MULTIPLE VIDEO STREAMS FOR CENTRALIZED PROCESSORS - A method of providing video feeds from a plurality of cameras to a plurality of screens including determining a plurality of constraints on a centralized processor processing the video feeds, determining a camera semantic classification for each of the plurality of cameras, determining historical events captured by each of the plurality of cameras, and providing at least one video feed to at least one of the screens according to the plurality of constraints on the centralized processor, the camera semantic classifications and the historical events. | 01-15-2015 |
20150073686 | TRAFFIC CONTROL AGENCY DEPLOYMENT AND SIGNAL OPTIMIZATION FOR EVENT PLANNING - Embodiments relate to traffic control resource planning. An aspect includes receiving information about available routes in a transportation network and receiving an estimate of a traffic demand in the transportation network. Traffic control planning is performed and it may include: simulating a traffic flow based on the available routes and the traffic demand; applying a model that varies traffic control agent (TCA) placement and traffic signal settings in the transportation network to minimize a cost associated with the traffic flow, the cost including a TCA deployment cost and a traffic delay cost; and outputting a traffic control plan based on the applying, the traffic control plan including a TCA placement and traffic signal setting plan. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073687 | TRAFFIC CONTROL AGENCY DEPLOYMENT AND SIGNAL OPTIMIZATION FOR EVENT PLANNING - Embodiments relate to traffic control resource planning. An aspect includes receiving information about available routes in a transportation network and receiving an estimate of a traffic demand in the transportation network. Traffic control planning is performed and it may include: simulating a traffic flow based on the available routes and the traffic demand; applying a model that varies traffic control agent (TCA) placement and traffic signal settings in the transportation network to minimize a cost associated with the traffic flow, the cost including a TCA deployment cost and a traffic delay cost; and outputting a traffic control plan based on the applying, the traffic control plan including a TCA placement and traffic signal setting plan. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073688 | Traffic Impact Prediction for Multiple Event Planning - Embodiments relate to traffic impact prediction in a transportation network. Link level background traffic demand in a transportation network may be estimated based on information about available routes, and based on expected background traffic volumes between origins and destinations. A background traffic flow model that optimizes a background flow of the expected background traffic volumes among the available routes to minimize a sum of background congestion costs, background path entropy, and errors between an observed background traffic flow and the optimized background flow may be applied. Alternative routes may be identified based on the available routes and event based control plans. Expected additional event based traffic volumes may be received. A link level total traffic demand in the transportation network may be estimated based on the expected additional event based traffic volumes, the identified alternative routes, and the estimated background traffic demand. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073689 | Traffic Impact Prediction for Multiple Event Planning - Embodiments relate to traffic impact prediction in a transportation network. Link level background traffic demand in a transportation network may be estimated based on information about available routes, and based on expected background traffic volumes between origins and destinations. A background traffic flow model that optimizes a background flow of the expected background traffic volumes among the available routes to minimize a sum of background congestion costs, background path entropy, and errors between an observed background traffic flow and the optimized background flow may be applied. Alternative routes may be identified based on the available routes and event based control plans. Expected additional event based traffic volumes may be received. A link level total traffic demand in the transportation network may be estimated based on the expected additional event based traffic volumes, the identified alternative routes, and the estimated background traffic demand. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK OPTIMIZED, SPATIALLY SENSITIVE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT - A preventative maintenance method and a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters such as failure history combined with causative factors like weather and independent external risk factors such as vandalism and risk of flooding. The present invention may further have a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters, such as failure history combined with causative factors such as weather and independent external risk factors like vandalism and risk of flooding having a location based asset/service failure risk estimator, an external risk estimates database for feeding and an integrated failure risk database, the external risk estimates database feeding the integrated failure risk database. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081377 | DYNAMIC PRICING FOR FINANCIAL PRODUCTS - An aspect of product pricing includes classifying customers into groups based on shared, predefined characteristics and financial transactions, and identifying services rendered and available but not rendered. For each customer, a risk associated with a service is estimated; availability and prices of the service by third parties are determined; a price for the service set by the entity is compared with the prices set by the third parties; and a demand for the service of the entity is estimated as a function of the availability and prices of the service by the third parties. For each customer, a probability that the customer will purchase the service is estimated based on the demand, and a price for the service that is customized for the customer is calculated, as a function of the risk, the demand, and the probability of purchase, and in view of a target profit and/or target revenue. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081378 | TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT UPDATE ALARM - Embodiments relate to a transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) update alarm. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data is accessed, along with economic data from an external data source. A TRDL alarm analytics model is applied to the customer data and the economic data to predict a number of transactions in a specified time period that are expected to exceed a TRDL. The TRDL alarm analytics model takes into account a payment transaction pattern associated with the customer. A threshold value is compared to the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL. An increase in the TRDL is requested to be applied at least during the specified time period based on the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL being greater than the threshold value. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081388 | CUSTOMER SELECTION FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - An aspect of customer selection processes includes classifying, by a computer processor, customers of an entity into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics among the customers. For each of the groups: services rendered for corresponding customers are identified; for each of the services rendered, a risk relationship and a reward relationship between each of the corresponding customers and the service is determined; and for each of the services rendered, a score that defines a combination of the risk relationship and the reward relationship is calculated. For each of the services rendered by the entity, the corresponding score is applied to a candidate customer having a set of characteristics matching the characteristics of one of the groups, and the service is offered to the candidate customer as a function of the score. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081390 | CUSTOMER SELECTION FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - An aspect of customer selection processes includes classifying, by a computer processor, customers of an entity into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics among the customers. For each of the groups: services rendered for corresponding customers are identified; for each of the services rendered, a risk relationship and a reward relationship between each of the corresponding customers and the service is determined; and for each of the services rendered, a score that defines a combination of the risk relationship and the reward relationship is calculated. For each of the services rendered by the entity, the corresponding score is applied to a candidate customer having a set of characteristics matching the characteristics of one of the groups, and the service is offered to the candidate customer as a function of the score. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081391 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES - An aspect of product recommendation processes includes classifying customers into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics and common financial transaction activities conducted. For each service offered, the product recommendation processes include estimating a cost of recommendation of the service; and estimating, for each of the customers in a group, a transaction risk of providing the service. For each group, the product recommendation processes include: identifying services available that are not rendered; estimating, based on economic health data associated with the corresponding customers, a probability of an acceptance by the corresponding customers of an offer for available services; estimating a profit based on historical profit data acquired from results of rendering the service to the customers of the group; and selecting a subset of the available services to offer the customers as a function of the cost of recommendation, the transaction risk, the probability of acceptance, and estimated profit. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081481 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN AUTOMATED RECONCILIATION OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Embodiments relate to analytics-driven automated reconciliation of financial transactions. External information is correlated with a plurality of financial transaction reconciliation exceptions associated with a sequence of financial transactions over a period of time. A plurality of causal factors is identified from the external information associated with a pattern of the financial transaction reconciliation exceptions. A plurality of more recent financial transactions is monitored for the causal factors. An exception prediction alert is issued based on identifying the causal factors in the more recent financial transactions prior to detecting a new financial transaction reconciliation exception associated with the more recent financial transactions. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081482 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN AUTOMATED RECONCILIATION OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Embodiments relate to analytics-driven automated reconciliation of financial transactions. External information is correlated with a plurality of financial transaction reconciliation exceptions associated with a sequence of financial transactions over a period of time. A plurality of causal factors is identified from the external information associated with a pattern of the financial transaction reconciliation exceptions. A plurality of more recent financial transactions is monitored for the causal factors. An exception prediction alert is issued based on identifying the causal factors in the more recent financial transactions prior to detecting a new financial transaction reconciliation exception associated with the more recent financial transactions. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081483 | INTRADAY CASH FLOW OPTIMIZATION - Embodiments relate to intraday cash flow optimization. Transactions are accessed on a business-to-business integration network from a plurality of sources linked with payment delivery system data from a financial service system. The transactions are associated with two or more compartmentalized entities. The transactions are characterizes based on the payment delivery system data and an analysis of customer profile data. The transactions associated with two or more compartmentalized entities are linked as integrated information based on the characterizing of the transactions. An intraday receivables prediction engine and an intraday payables prediction engine are applied to the integrated information to produce an estimation of intraday cash flow. The estimation of intraday cash flow is monitored relative to intraday operations optimization conditions. An alert is generated based on determining that at least one of the intraday operations optimization conditions is met. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081491 | INTRADAY CASH FLOW OPTIMIZATION - Embodiments relate to intraday cash flow optimization. Transactions are accessed on a business-to-business integration network from a plurality of sources linked with payment delivery system data from a financial service system. The transactions are associated with two or more compartmentalized entities. The transactions are characterizes based on the payment delivery system data and an analysis of customer profile data. The transactions associated with two or more compartmentalized entities are linked as integrated information based on the characterizing of the transactions. An intraday receivables prediction engine and an intraday payables prediction engine are applied to the integrated information to produce an estimation of intraday cash flow. The estimation of intraday cash flow is monitored relative to intraday operations optimization conditions. An alert is generated based on determining that at least one of the intraday operations optimization conditions is met. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081492 | TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT UPDATE ALARM - Embodiments relate to a transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) update alarm. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data is accessed, along with economic data from an external data source. A TRDL alarm analytics model is applied to the customer data and the economic data to predict a number of transactions in a specified time period that are expected to exceed a TRDL. The TRDL alarm analytics model takes into account a payment transaction pattern associated with the customer. A threshold value is compared to the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL. An increase in the TRDL is requested to be applied at least during the specified time period based on the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL being greater than the threshold value. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081519 | DYNAMIC PRICING FOR FINANCIAL PRODUCTS - An aspect of product pricing includes classifying customers into groups based on shared, predefined characteristics and financial transactions, and identifying services rendered and available but not rendered. For each customer, a risk associated with a service is estimated; availability and prices of the service by third parties are determined; a price for the service set by the entity is compared with the prices set by the third parties; and a demand for the service of the entity is estimated as a function of the availability and prices of the service by the third parties. For each customer, a probability that the customer will purchase the service is estimated based on the demand, and a price for the service that is customized for the customer is calculated, as a function of the risk, the demand, and the probability of purchase, and in view of a target profit and/or target revenue. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081520 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES - An aspect of product recommendation processes includes classifying customers into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics and common financial transaction activities conducted. For each service offered, the product recommendation processes include estimating a cost of recommendation of the service; and estimating, for each of the customers in a group, a transaction risk of providing the service. For each group, the product recommendation processes include: identifying services available that are not rendered; estimating, based on economic health data associated with the corresponding customers, a probability of an acceptance by the corresponding customers of an offer for available services; estimating a profit based on historical profit data acquired from results of rendering the service to the customers of the group; and selecting a subset of the available services to offer the customers as a function of the cost of recommendation, the transaction risk, the probability of acceptance, and estimated profit. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081523 | ANALYTICS DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMITS - Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limits (TRDLs). Customer data that includes historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with a customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network. A TRDL assessment model is applied, by a processor, to the customer data and the economic data to generate a TRDL for the customer. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081524 | ANALYTICS DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT EXCEPTIONS - Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) exceptions. A transaction that includes a request to make a payment from an account associated with a customer is received and it is determined that processing the payment will result in exceeding a TRDL. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with the customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network from an external data source. A TRDL exception assessment model is applied, by the processor, to the transaction, the customer data, and the economic data to generate an approval recommendation for the request and a confidence level associated with the approval recommendation. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081542 | ANALYTICS DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMITS - Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limits (TRDLs). Customer data that includes historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with a customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network. A TRDL assessment model is applied, by a processor, to the customer data and the economic data to generate a TRDL for the customer. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081543 | ANALYTICS DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT EXCEPTIONS - Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) exceptions. A transaction that includes a request to make a payment from an account associated with a customer is received and it is determined that processing the payment will result in exceeding a TRDL. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with the customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network from an external data source. A TRDL exception assessment model is applied, by the processor, to the transaction, the customer data, and the economic data to generate an approval recommendation for the request and a confidence level associated with the approval recommendation. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081563 | PRIVACY PRESERVING CONTENT ANALYSIS - Embodiments relate to privacy preserving content analysis. A recoverable hash operation is performed on text information to produce hashed text information in a business-to-business system. The business-to-business system includes a business-to-business transaction gateway coupled to a plurality of enterprise computer systems. A non-recoverable hash operation is performed on numerical information to produce hashed numerical information in the business-to-business system. The hashed text information and the hashed numerical information are provided from the business-to-business transaction gateway to an analytics engine to perform encrypted content analysis. The text information and the numerical information are provided from one of the enterprise computer systems as a producer system to another of the enterprise computer systems as a consumer system through the business-to-business transaction gateway. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081564 | PRIVACY PRESERVING CONTENT ANALYSIS - Embodiments relate to privacy preserving content analysis. A recoverable hash operation is performed on text information to produce hashed text information in a business-to-business system. The business-to-business system includes a business-to-business transaction gateway coupled to a plurality of enterprise computer systems. A non-recoverable hash operation is performed on numerical information to produce hashed numerical information in the business-to-business system. The hashed text information and the hashed numerical information are provided from the business-to-business transaction gateway to an analytics engine to perform encrypted content analysis. The text information and the numerical information are provided from one of the enterprise computer systems as a producer system to another of the enterprise computer systems as a consumer system through the business-to-business transaction gateway. | 03-19-2015 |