A-Cut is AI-powered technology from IDIS for live monitoring video surveillance operations.
IDIS A-Cut is designed to ensure that surveillance users have complete situational awareness and a response tool, overcoming the challenge of locating crucial scenes, featuring objects or people of interest among vast amounts of video footage. A-Cut automatically extracts the best representative image of any target object or person, crops the image, and presents it in a way that makes it easy for operators to find.
By clicking on the cropped image, the operator is automatically taken to the moment in the recorded video stream when the object last appears. A-Cut provides operators with access to key events, the developers add, for incident verification. Each cropped image is indexed as a searchable visual moment, allowing for identification of persons or objects of interest across video footage, tracking of movements, and giving a picture of a sequence of events.
The cropped images can be combined with IDIS AI Search functions powered by IDIS’s deep learning engine. Every cropped image is classified into three categories: people, faces, and vehicles. A-Cut combined with AI Search also identifies object attributes and allows filtered searches – for example, searching for people by age and gender, by clothing colour, or whether they have accessories such as glasses, hats, masks, or bags; or searching for vehicles by colour or type.
Dr Seong-Jin Yun, Head of R&D Center Advance Technology Division and SVP at IDIS, pictured, says: “A-Cut technology will prove invaluable in a wide range of monitoring applications. Whether you’re safeguarding public spaces, overseeing retail operations, or managing security at sensitive facilities, A-Cut delivers unmatched speed, clarity, and control—helping your team retain comprehensive situational awareness and respond quickly and appropriately to a security threat or safety incident.”
