Industrial Applications of Image Recognition and Retrieval Technologies for Public Safety and IT Services

Hitachi has a wide variety of technologies ranging from systems for infrastructure to IT platforms such as railway management systems, water supply operation systems, manufacturing management systems for factories, surveillance cameras and monitoring systems, rolling stocks, power plants, servers, storages, data centers, and various IT systems for governments and companies. The research and development group of Hitachi is developing video analytics and other media processing techniques and applying them to various products and solutions with business divisions for such as public safety, productivity improvement of factories and other IT applications. In this talk, I would like to introduce some of the products, solutions and research topics in Hitachi which video analytics and image retrieval techniques are applied. These include an image search system for retrieving public registered design graphics, a person detection and tracking function for video surveillance system and our activities and results in TRECVID 2017. In each cases, we integrated our original high speed image search database and deep learning based image recognition technique. Through these use cases, I would like to present how image recognition and retrieval technologies are practically utilized to industrial products and solutions and contributing to the improvement of social welfare.