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Machine Learning
Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence where software learns patterns from data instead of being explicitly programmed with rules. In video analytics, it is the technique that lets a system recognize a face, read a license plate, or detect smoke without a developer coding every case.
False Positive in AI
A false positive in AI is a prediction where the model says "yes, this is the event" but the event didn't actually occur — for example, flagging smoke when it's really steam, detecting a weapon when it's an umbrella, or matching a face to the wrong person. Managing false positives is one of the most important practical challenges in video analytics.
Facial Detection
Facial detection is the computer vision task of finding the location of every human face in an image or video frame — typically represented as a bounding box. It is the first step in every face recognition, age estimation, or facial analysis pipeline.
Convolutional Neural Network
A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a class of deep neural network designed to process grid-structured data — most commonly images and video. CNNs are the dominant architecture behind face recognition, license plate reading, object detection, and virtually every other modern computer vision task.
ALPR
ALPR — Automatic License Plate Recognition — is the computer vision technology that reads vehicle license plates from camera video in real time and converts them into searchable text. It is also commonly called LPR (license plate recognition) or ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) depending on the region.
AI Training Data
AI training data is the collection of labeled examples — images, video clips, and annotations — that a machine learning model studies to learn its task. In video analytics, the quality and diversity of training data is the single biggest factor determining how well a model works in the real world.
AI Model Accuracy
AI model accuracy is a measure of how often a machine learning model produces the correct prediction. In video analytics, it is one of the most marketed and most misunderstood metrics — a 99% accuracy number on a slide can mean very different things in different deployments.
AI Inference
AI inference is the process of running a trained machine learning model on new input data to produce a prediction — in video analytics, that means running a face recognition, object detection, or other model on a live camera frame to detect what's in it.
Video Management System
A video management system (VMS) is software that connects to IP cameras, records and archives their footage, and provides operators with tools to view, search, and act on video — all from one unified interface.
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