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Surveillance device based on artificial intelligence - Budisteanu's application awarded in China [Agerpres, Bucharest, Romania :: ](Agerpres (Romania) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) July 24--RAMNICU VALCEA -- Ionut Budisteanu's owes his recent success in the Shanghai IT contest where he won the first prize to an artificial intelligence device for the automatic surveillance of premises and buildings, the young computer scientist told AGERPRES on Thursday. 'Four months ago, those of INTEL gave us an electronic device based on which we were supposed to make an application. My application consists of a system that can manage in a different manner the data obtained from the surveillance cameras. Therefore, in a bank, around a vault, there are, let's say, four surveillance cameras monitored by people. The cameras store a bunch of information on a hard disk and, if anything suspicious happens, hours of footage must be wound back to see the moment when the event occurred. The device I created makes a selection, avoiding so to speak this ballast of information, it is meant to calculate and identify exactly the moment when something suspicious happened. Thus, you don't spend hours on end to analyse the gathered information, but you can see straight away what went wrong,' Budisteanu explained. This device can be also set up in supermarkets, according to the young inventor, and it is meant to calculate the trajectory and walk of customers, 'identifying the moment when someone tries to run.' 'It can also be a marketing instrument, because it can calculate statistics, how many customers enter in a certain time interval, it can identify people. And it can be accessed from a mobile phone,' the young computer scientist said. Referring to the experience at the competition in China, Ionut Budisteanu voiced his surprise at the fact that many websites are banned in this country. 'As any programmer, I still managed to post photos and images on these sites. Anyway, I am surprised that Google, YouTube are banned in China,' the young man said. Ionut Budisteanu, representing the University of Bucharest, on Tuesday evening was awarded a new prize, this time in Shanghai -- China, where he came first in the IT international competition 'Embedded System Design Contest.' Ionut Budisteanu is a computer scientist and inventor born in Ramnicu Valcea. At present, Ionut Budisteanu is a second year student with the Mathematics-Informatics Faculty of the University of Bucharest. ___ (c)2014 Agerpres, Bucharest, Romania Visit Agerpres, Bucharest, Romania at www1.agerpres.ro/english Distributed by MCT Information Services |