Intelligent Camera Incorporating Visconti™2 Image Recognition Processor

Toshiba has developed an intelligent camera incorporating the Visconti™2 image recognition processor.

In a wide-area surveillance system, a centralized image recognition server may be overloaded with computational demands if it receives images from many network cameras simultaneously. Our newly developed intelligent camera incorporating Visconti™2 alleviates this problem because Visconti™2 makes it possible to perform advanced image processing in the camera. This intelligent camera also helps to reduce the power consumption of PCs used in the system and relax constraints on their installation sites. Visconti™2 is a flexible processor designed to perform various image processing tasks at high speed. The same camera can be tailored to meet diverse requirements such as human detection, vehicle detection, and face recognition as a security feature simply by modifying the firmware for Visconti™2.

Operators can efficiently evaluate the worth of each video frame produced by the camera and quickly focus on important scenes showing persons or vehicles. Thus, the intelligent camera incorporating Visconti™2 provides an excellent video surveillance solution that combines a high level of operator efficiency and a simple system organization.

Prototype of intelligent camera and Visconti™2 board