FxAlert System

FxAlert is a face recognition product for video surveillance which allows automatic identification against a list of registered person stored in database. It is designed and optimized for applications related to Identification that performs 1 to N facial recognition. To allow for scalability, high performance and high availability even with huge image databases, FxAlert deploys the client-server architecture, one single Watch-list Station can connect with multiple Tracking Stations to speed up the lookup process. FxAlert can be run on any standard PC workstation hardware. Processor, RAM and hard disk requirements are moderate. While hardware requirements for any Tracking Station machine depend on the number of cameras operated at this machine only, requirements for a Watchlist Station depend on the overall number of video streams operated by the system and the rate of face images incident on each video stream. Normally, 4 faces per second can be processed per video stream against a watch list of 100,000 people.

• Continuous identification of faces in video streams from one or more cameras at different locations against a watch list.
• Results of identifications (alerts) are stored into the database, where they can be extracted for post processing.
• Watchlist administration: creation and administration of personal data, whose extent is configurable, and biometric data within the database.
• Graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for alert visualization and administration, watchlist administration, and FxAlert system monitoring.
• Operation of the system can be made traceable by means of configurable, comprehensive logging facilities.
• Support of any common Database system.

The Watchlist Station is the central server which continuously receives faces from one or more Tracking Stations and runs identifications against the list of pre-enrolled persons. Successful identifications are stored to a database and can be visualized notification is generated. The Watchlist Station performs logging of relevant business and administrative actions. FxAlert provides an administrator tools which allow you to customize the alert and build VIP profiles easily. All logging information is stored in database, it is easy to provide customized reports, by default FxAlert includes the HTTP report engine to view the logs and alert online.

The Tracking Stations are located at the video surveillance locations. Each Tracking Station is connected with a number of surveillance cameras, the number of cameras available for connection depends on the video capture device of the Tracking Station. Tracking Stations perform analysis of video streams from the connected surveillance cameras and trigger biometric identifications at the Watchlist Station for all found faces. Each Tracking Station can operate one or more cameras, the number of available cameras connection depends on the video capture device installed on the Tracking Station.

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FxAlert System is suitable for VIP identification; it can be easily connected with backend CRM system to provide personalized services to your customer. Consider the typical scenario of a prestige restaurant in the town: FxAlert System is installed in the entrance, when the VIP passes through the entrance, his/her face is recognition and the user ID is sent to the backend CRM system. With the message sent from FxAlert, the servers can retrieve the purchase or visit history of the VIP from the CRM system. Knowing that the VIP is fond of red-wine, the CS staffs introduce the house-wine of today to the VIP and suggest the dishes that meet's the VIP favorite. Due to the flexibility of FxAlert System, it can integrate with different legacy system to provide pro-active services to serve different business needs. FxAlert is also suitable for Video surveillance in airports, club houses, casinos, stadiums and other public locations for blacklist and VIP filtering.