Location: Reston, VA Employees: 80+ Sales and Investment to Date: $60,000,000

Company Background

ObjectVideo®, located in Reston, Virginia, occupies a unique position as both the leading developer and provider of intelligent video software for physical security and related applications and as an established center of excellence for research and development in the field of Computer Vision, with an unequalled track record for successful commercialization of R&D efforts in this field. The firm was founded in 1998 by research scientists whose expertise in an area of artificial intelligence known as 'computer vision' provided the nucleus around which the company was formed. ObjectVideo® software incorporates state-of-the-art computer vision technology to enable computers to 'see' and understand surveillance video. Through the use of computer vision technology, real-time video content analysis is possible and a quick and accurate assessment of potential high-threat situations can be performed.

Innovative Technology Developed

With the proliferation of visual sensors in Battlespace and Homeland Defense applications a new problem is on the rise: there are not enough sets of eyes to watch and monitor all the sensors. In many security applications, such as video surveillance, the video content is extremely tedious to monitor effectively. ObjectVideo has created software that watches video feeds in place of a human and alerts watchstanders when events of interest occur. Interesting events might include a human crossing a virtual video tripwire on a perimeter, or a human loitering for a user-defined period of time in a region of interest like a loading dock, or a left object such as a suitcase left in the lobby of an office building. In shifting the monitoring task from human eyes to a computer, the security force gains a security guard who never tires, never gets distracted, and never takes a lunch break. The security force is freed to respond to the, automated security alerts in real-time and initiate the appropriate action(s). This DARPA funded innovation has revolutionized force and critical-asset protection both domestically and abroad.

DoD Implementation and Commercialization Summary

ObjectVideo's success in commercializing the results of this DoD funded R&D is amply demonstrated by a number of factors including:

• The success and maturity of its flagship software product, ObjectVideo VEW (currently in its fifth commercial release), which significantly improves the effectiveness of physical security operations and enables organizations to be more proactive and efficient by providing automated, real time detection, identification, tracking and analysis of potential threats and events
• ObjectVideo's over 160 sales deployments, including installations for customers in areas such as critical infrastructure protection, transportation monitoring and protection, petrochemical facility protection, force protection, homeland security, and various military applications.
• ObjectVideo's growing product line, based on the commercialization of it's DoD funded R&D, that includes ObjectVideo OnBoard^TM which makes functionality packages from the server-based VEW product available as an application running on a Digital Signal Processor that can be embedded into products such as smart cameras, DVRs, and video management platforms and ObjectVideo Forensics which is a powerful software tool that scans days and weeks of pre-recorded video within minutes to locate and extract information about potential security breaches, then allows users to run regular queries to detect possible patterns.

Contact Information

http://www.objectvideo.com/