Description du projet
Nouvelle analyse du comportement des foules pour se protéger contre le terrorisme
L’augmentation des attaques terroristes depuis 2016 pose de nouveaux défis aux institutions chargées de la sécurité. Les attaques ont été orchestrées dans des endroits très fréquentés, notamment un stade bondé et un marché de Noël en plein air très animé. De telles attaques entraînent un comportement humain incontrôlable tel que la panique. Toutefois, le coût élevé du matériel, ainsi que des préoccupations liées à la protection de la vie privée, entravent l’adoption de systèmes qui répondent aux défis susmentionnés. Le projet AWARE, financé par l’UE, propose une solution innovante qui analyse le comportement des foules, atteint une vitesse de traitement élevée et présente un bon rapport coût/efficacité. Elle garantit également la confidentialité des données et répond aux exigences du RGPD de l’UE. Créée par HERTA, société leader mondial dans les solutions de reconnaissance faciale et d’identification dans la foule, la solution AWARE peut être intégrée à tout type de caméra.
Objectif
TERRORIST THREAT has increased in Europe and worldwide since Paris attacks in 2016. High density crowded places, such as critical infrastructures and public open areas, are being particularly targeted by those who instill terror. Both public and private sectors need next generation face recognition systems able to cover such large, crowded and unconstrained environments, and to massively process faces with high performance; altogether with the detection abnormal crowd behaviors such as mass panic, stampedes or bottlenecks.
However, computational requirements and highly-priced hardware are hampering these deployments. Also the analysis of faces and crowds arises increasing concerns about privacy, and it is necessary to ensure compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other local regulations. We will bring an easy-to-install and user-friendly solution, covering cybersecurity needs and market replication.
The AWARE PROJECT provides a disruptive solution to solve major pains: (1) First solution able to analyze crowd behavior. (2) Use of an edge computing architecture and Deep Neural Network accelerators to achieve outstanding processing speed and cost-efficiency. (3) Ensuring data privacy and GDPR accomplishment.
AWARE is at TRL6, while HERTA is well-positioned worldwide as one of the few face recognition providers in crowded and unconstrained environments.
The global face recognition MARKET is becoming very competitive, and expected to increase to USD 7,76 Billion by 2022 at a CAGR of 13,8%,
The team involved in the project has over 25 years of experience in the innovation and commercialization of biometrics.
COMPETITORS: FaceFirst (USA) and NEC (Japan) solutions are slower and do not provide: crowd behavior analysis, secure databases, hardware scalability and integrated with any type of camera.
ACCUMULATED ADDITIONAL REVENUES OF 143 M€ and accumulated additional Profit of 67,9 M€ by the 3rd year; creating 30 new high-quality employments.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsterrorism
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
08037 Barcelona
Espagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.