Grant: Engage Grants Program

Genetec is a world leader in the domain of video surveillance and License Plate Recognition (LPR). The AutoVu system is part of the security center product and is used by law enforcement agencies, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and tolling systems throughout the world. In some cases, the detection of the license plate fails because of an atypical license plate bad or observation conditions (snow, extreme observation angles, occlusions, low lighting, etc.). In this kind of situation, the analysis should rely on other visual cues in order to decide whether or not a vehicle is present. The long term goal of Genetec is to add visual processing capabilities beyond LPR that could help improve performances and offer additional video analytic capabilities. The short term goal is to start collaboration and identify methodology candidates that could help detect vehicles without relying on the license plate detection only.