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ActivEye® and Cradle Bring Video Content Analysis Software to
Embedded Platforms for Powerful Intelligent Video Surveillance
Applications
Briarcliff Manor, New York — June 23, 2005 ActivEye, a leading provider of video content analysis software and Cradle Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company providing multiprocessor DSPs (MDSPs) for video and imaging systems, today announced an agreement to port ActivEye’s Active Alert™ Intelligent Video Content Analysis software to Cradle’s CT3600 MDSP family. The current video surveillance market is experiencing two important trends: the increasing adoption rate of intelligent video in security equipment and the shift of intelligent video installations from costly PC-based solutions to highly integrated embedded platforms even down to the camera level. The CT3600, with its scalable high performance and programmability features, simplifies customer deployment of proprietary intelligent video algorithms, thus enabling differentiation among security equipment vendors. The CT3600 product family integrates up to sixteen SIMD 32-bit DSP engines, eight general-purpose CPUs, 144 programmable I/O pins and a three-tiered memory hierarchy system to accelerate and integrate multimedia infrastructure processing. The CT3600 family delivers new price/performance points for the rapidly expanding video surveillance market including applications such as IP cameras and streamers, network video recorders (NVRs) and multi-channel DVRs. This allows video-surveillance system manufacturers to take sophisticated software-based intelligent video solutions running on expensive PCs and port them to a DSP-based embedded platform, such as the CT3600, resulting in significant cost savings. With the CT3616, up to 16 channels of intelligent video can be delivered on a single embedded platform. Active Alert’s industry leading intelligent video software distinguishes between humans, automobiles, and environmental backgrounds. It automatically detects, classifies, timestamps, and alerts on behaviors of multiple people and objects simultaneously as they move through a scene. Active Alert reports more than 35 separate suspicious events or behaviors the user considers a potential threat; enables instantaneous incident retrieval for review by security professionals; and offers fast data mining capabilities, enabling end users to spot trends and modify operations to maximize security, increase safety and optimize operational efficiency. The companies plan to offer integrated intelligent video and encoder combinations using H.264, MPEG-4, and MJPEG formats, as well as high channel density intelligent video accelerator solutions. “The cooperative efforts of Cradle and ActivEye to bring highly intelligent video software to our MDSP platform offer benefits previously unavailable to video-surveillance equipment manufacturers,” said Arthur Chang, Cradle’s President and CEO. “The unprecedented compute power of the CT3600 family supports ActivEye’s powerful video-analysis software along with video encoding algorithms and the other highly complex computational tasks needed for leading-edge video surveillance equipment.” “By porting our Active Alert software to Cradle’s CT3600 family, we can take advantage of its very high performance and excellent scalability to address camera as well as digital video recorder system tasks at various price/performance levels. We can therefore offer our customers an automated, highly intelligent video-surveillance platform, unprecedented in the market until now,” said Carolyn Ramsey, President and CEO of ActivEye. “Combining analytical intelligence with video processing in a single system delivers the best in class, most powerful toolset for rapid first response and decision making for our customers’ critical surveillance needs.”
About Cradle Technologies
(www.cradle.com)
About ActivEye
(www.activeye.com)
Media Contacts:
Cradle Technologies
Cain Communications
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ActivEye, Incorporated
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