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<p><strong>Making the world a safer place with real-time video analysis. That is the mission of VAIBS, based in Harderwijk. “We are the European ‘Platinum Partner’ of the ‘Vaidio Video AI Analytics platform,’” says co-owner Kasper van Kekem. “Vaidio offers multiple modules, and we supplement them with concepts we’ve developed ourselves. We do this by further training Vaidio. For example, we’ve developed a concept that recognizes when someone is asking for help.”</strong></p><p><img src="https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/VAIBS_maakt_slimme_camera_s_echt_slim_bf92c14a69.jpg?token=Ng7nRfrwY1FXjvXGhwgxPjWnUNxMFcFpfz_ZG2meXTg&amp;expires=1777454675" alt="VAIBS maakt slimme camera's écht slim.jpg" srcset="https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/thumbnail_VAIBS_maakt_slimme_camera_s_echt_slim_bf92c14a69.jpg?token=BPe7weVIqpXeF3KSvqZZB_Cm6zAMHh9AZtHLljuoTJE&amp;expires=1777454675 245w,https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/small_VAIBS_maakt_slimme_camera_s_echt_slim_bf92c14a69.jpg?token=a3Fu4c2NmS1IWGN61eyoUcVN6SI0KK1o7W8jmaeujAU&amp;expires=1777454675 500w,https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/medium_VAIBS_maakt_slimme_camera_s_echt_slim_bf92c14a69.jpg?token=axBBVbk1HYIfg9J77w6UcRGd-l4S0KyrywQJA_OlEjA&amp;expires=1777454675 750w,https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/large_VAIBS_maakt_slimme_camera_s_echt_slim_bf92c14a69.jpg?token=0Mz9ESE9VOO8mM3iROLCtFi5DkGDFdTpyx_EaVwZCIc&amp;expires=1777454675 1000w," sizes="100vw" width="2048" height="1278"></p><p>VAIBS focuses on various industries, including in particular: “safety and security,” “healthcare,” “alarm centers and dispatch centers,” “public order and safety,” “transportation and logistics,” and “retail.” Clients include Jumbo, Kooi 24/7, and the Ministry of Defense.</p><p>The Vaidio platform has been around for twelve years now. “For an AI company, that’s a long time; there are plenty of people who had never even heard of artificial intelligence twelve years ago. We now have two hundred employees. So there’s an incredible amount of knowledge and experience within the company. At VAIBS in Harderwijk, we work with nine experts. All the expertise from both the U.S. and our own company enriches the product.”</p><h2>Recognition of objects or behavior</h2><p>The foundation of the product is the recognition of elements that appear in the frame. The video stream from a security camera is sent to Vaidio, which analyzes what is visible. “The metadata is identified: this is a car, that’s a phone, that’s a bicycle, and so on. Or, more precisely: this is a white Volkswagen Golf. Or: “This is a man wearing a blue jacket.” But also, for example: “Someone moving against the flow of traffic,” “a person lingering in one spot for a long time,” or “someone falling.” For each client, we specify what the platform should look out for. Vaidio has already trained the model extensively, and it ranks among the top three most accurate systems worldwide; it recognizes objects, vehicles, people, and the like with an accuracy of over 99 percent. If a specific object, vehicle, or behavior isn’t included yet, we or the end customer can add it.”</p><p>VAIBS can add behaviors, such as people waving. “That’s based on movements,” Kasper explains. “Someone visiting a museum who needs help, for example, can wave at the camera. Security personnel in the control room are automatically alerted without the need for continuous monitoring of the footage. So that’s a movement the system has learned to recognize because we’ve ‘tagged’ that movement—in various forms—very often.”</p><p>Like all AI applications, the system gets smarter as it gains experience. “In virtually all cases, the system (Vaidio) detects the waving motion. If the system detects such a motion, a notification is automatically sent to the end user or to a control room.” “In principle, no work takes place on a construction site between 7:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. If Vaidio nevertheless detects a person within the designated area during those hours, an alert is automatically sent to the control room or the police.”</p><p><img src="https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/VAIBS_06244307dd.jpg?token=LtFS5Ify3vICruAWqrHEJiaj_Bsdr04GhF1ajCGxcug&amp;expires=1777454718" alt="VAIBS.jpg" srcset="https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/thumbnail_VAIBS_06244307dd.jpg?token=4nZpY_7_JE6jRfMWBEmd4acix59fKVYJk1BxL7s1mDY&amp;expires=1777454718 234w,https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/small_VAIBS_06244307dd.jpg?token=g4qNmi-xK1a5Nl5ymWMIDSq_NtHd7XvRLWCz3db6bxQ&amp;expires=1777454718 500w,https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/medium_VAIBS_06244307dd.jpg?token=z2t4u94-OrMgozOEzwgYwW-7wS2nP0xCo0pgt8fJP0w&amp;expires=1777454718 750w,https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/large_VAIBS_06244307dd.jpg?token=g6B14xcXqNCtfERgLeTnI9O0LxUZvfKaYVKH_RjfjV4&amp;expires=1777454718 1000w," sizes="100vw" width="5000" height="3337"></p><h2>Real-time insight into the situation</h2><p>According to Kasper, intelligent cameras—as VAIBS also calls them—are a solution to staffing shortages. “Whereas cameras have typically been used reactively up to now—for example, reviewing footage afterward to see if a perpetrator is visible—we use them proactively. The alert may be supplemented with a live camera feed or with 15 seconds of video footage from before and after the incident. Think of people loitering somewhere or entering a store wearing a helmet or a balaclava. This allows us to immediately assess what’s going on and determine what actions are required.”</p><h2>Forensic Investigation or Commercial Purposes</h2><p>“Of course, there’s still the option to use the footage retrospectively,” says Kasper. “That’s useful for forensic investigations, for example. Suppose it’s known that a suspect was driving a white Volkswagen Golf. You can then instruct the system to identify the segments in approximately 1,000 hours of footage where such a car is visible.”</p><p>“The potential applications are also interesting for commercial purposes,” Kasper explains. “In a department store, the cameras can count how many people pass through the entrance each day. Or which entrance doors are used most frequently. Or to what extent a floor or parking space in a parking garage is being used.”</p><h2>Comparing anomalies against the context</h2><p>VAIBS trains the Vaidio system to detect anomalies. “Take a summer day, for example: it’s 30 degrees, everyone is walking through the shopping center in light clothing, and then suddenly someone walks by wearing a winter coat,” Kasper explains. “That could be suspicious, and you’d want to be alerted to it so you can at least properly assess the situation. In this way, Vaidio provides tremendous support to physical security.”</p><p>Teaching the system not just to recognize winter coats in general, but to recognize them only when the majority of people aren’t wearing them, is an area where VAIBS is leading the way. “We’re teaching the system not only to recognize the elements themselves, but to evaluate them in context,” says Kasper. “A light-colored dog lying behind a fence in an industrial park, with streaks of shadow running across its fur, is seen by the average ‘intelligent’ camera as a tiger. When Vaidio sees the context—the fence and the industrial park—it understands that it’s unlikely to be a tiger, but rather a guard dog.”</p><p><img src="https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/VAIBS_tijger_herkennen_5d4764b7cd.jpg?token=zFtO61ihP6UxK50-ZqWqCI0jQ5_GABOYluhAbN2W_Tw&amp;expires=1777454748" alt="VAIBS tijger herkennen.jpg" srcset="https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/thumbnail_VAIBS_tijger_herkennen_5d4764b7cd.jpg?token=yc_7fXdchgzyQXKjf97SO31BbYuR0iK55n847kR8NpA&amp;expires=1777454748 137w,https://cms.aihub-oost.nl/uploads/small_VAIBS_tijger_herkennen_5d4764b7cd.jpg?token=2nGUYBnbFJ0xc5NDEAnfD8nToE3PRwpEswXWRrATxP0&amp;expires=1777454748 440w," sizes="100vw" width="602" height="684"></p><h2>Aggression Detection as the Next Step</h2><p>Kasper and his colleagues also see a lot of potential in the field of aggression detection. “By being able to detect aggression at an early stage, timely intervention can prevent escalation. You can also instruct the cameras to track the person in question using ‘Cross Camera Tracking’ across multiple cameras. The same applies to ‘Cross Vehicle Tracking’ for monitoring specific vehicles. And this is perfectly feasible under Dutch privacy laws, which are quite strict. If the stakes are high enough, there’s a lot that can be achieved in the field of intelligent video surveillance.”</p>

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<p>Making the world a safer place with real-time video analysis. That is the mission of VAIBS, based in Harderwijk. “We are the European ‘Platinum Partner’ of the ‘Vaidio Video AI Analytics platform,’” says co-owner Kasper van Kekem. “Vaidio offers multiple modules, and we supplement them with concepts we’ve developed ourselves. We do this by further training Vaidio. For example, we’ve developed a concept that recognizes when someone is asking for help.”</p>