25 Jan Hikvision outlines focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Intersec
Hikvision hosted an exclusive AI+ forum in Dubai during Intersec for the global launch of its Hikvision Artificial Intelligence AI+ solutions.
General Sheikh Sultan Bin Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Commander-in-Chief of Ajman Police, Jin Lei, the Chinese Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Dubai, Hu Yangzhong, CEO of Hikvision and Binson Xu, general manager of Hikvision MENA, as well as hundreds of invited Hikvision clients attended the forum.
Binson Xu delivered the welcome speeches to the guests and a brief introduction of Hikvision’s company development and its investment in AI technology. “Hikvision developed from a 28-person start-up in 2001, and has grown to become a global enterprise today. Advanced engineering and a passion for innovation has empowered Hikvision to lead the security industry market with state-of-the-art surveillance products and solutions.”
Besides, Hikvision has established strategic partnership with technology companies in AI sector, such as Intel, Movidius, Nvidia, to exchange mutual advices on product development and feature enhancement. Syamak Nazary from Intel addressed the topics of “Video Transformation to Visual Intelligence”, and “Camera to Cloud Vision Capability” at the forum.
Hu Yangzhong, CEO of Hikvision, gave a keynote speech at the end of the forum, “Hikvision has operated in the security industry for many years with its own research and development capabilities, employing large amounts of real video and image data as training samples. Deep Leaning is a continuous process of self-learning the training samples. With this large amount of quality training data, human, vehicle and object pattern recognition models will become more and more accurate for video surveillance use.”
He continued, “At the same time, we also enable AI technology to be ventured into other industries like access control, and further expands to management sectors, to facilitate management efficiency and make the human life more convenient and smarter. Hikvision is lucky to be in this industry and we are ready for the AI era.”
In MENA region, Hikvision’s AI technology application such as Automatic Number Plate Recognition, People Counting, Facial Recognition and Heat Mapping have being utilized in different verticals to improve user experience and boost management efficiency, including retail stores, city surveillance, traffic, building, banking and much more.