Daejeon City Integrates AI into Security CCTV... "Zero Crime Blind Spots"

Example photo of crime prevention CCTV in operation in Daejeon. Provided by Daejeon City

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City is advancing the functionality of its security CCTV by integrating artificial intelligence. The city currently operates a CCTV integrated control center, achieving crime prevention effects. The addition of artificial intelligence is expected to bring the city one step closer to realizing zero crime blind spots in the future.

◆ AI Integration, Enhancing CCTV Functionality = On the 13th, the city announced that it was recently selected for the ‘2022 1st Information and Communication & Broadcasting Technology Development Support Project’ hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, in collaboration with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI).

According to the selection results, the city and ETRI will receive 10 billion KRW in research and development funding over the next five years to enhance the functionality of security CCTVs in the region. The core of this functionality enhancement is technology that demonstrates inherent learning capabilities to produce accurate predictive results even in applications with various environmental and conditional changes.

Currently, CCTVs operated in the region have significant changes in characteristics depending on factors such as viewing angle, weather, and time, which limits the interpretation of collected data.

However, by integrating artificial intelligence with CCTV, it is expected that technical limitations such as judgment errors that fail to recognize new objects outside the existing learning categories and reduced object recognition ability during rainy weather, which previously made response impossible, will be overcome.

Above all, the city and ETRI plan to maximize monitoring efficiency by enabling artificial intelligence to analyze environments and situations where CCTV does not function properly, adapt to new environments based on this analysis, and detect incidents and accidents even in situations such as nighttime or obstruction.

Min Ok-gi, Director of the Intelligent Information Research Division at ETRI, said, “We will develop visual artificial intelligence technology that can self-recognize learning capabilities and apply them to various environmental changes to contribute to ‘Making Daejeon Safe.’”

◆ Expected Synergy with Integrated Control Center = The enhancement of security CCTV is also expected to bring synergy effects through linkage with the integrated control center currently operating in the region.

The city introduced the integrated control center in 2014. The total number of CCTVs managed by the integrated control center is 5,648, which are used to prevent various incidents and accidents in the urban area and to apprehend criminals.

The effectiveness of operating the integrated control center is also confirmed by figures. For example, from 2018 to 2020, the integrated control center captured 2,361 incidents and accidents on CCTV, of which 254 cases resulted in police dispatched to the scene upon the center’s request successfully apprehending the suspects.

This was achieved through close cooperation with the 112 comprehensive situation room by recognizing crime occurrences, predicting suspects’ escape routes, and tracking suspects via on-site installed CCTVs.

Additionally, incidents and accidents such as violence, theft, simple disputes, and juvenile delinquency that can be confirmed by CCTV in the region decreased by about 40%, from 1,064 cases in 2018 to 641 cases in 2020.

Based on these figures, the city explains that the artificial intelligence functions to be added to the existing CCTV operations will play a significant role in crime prevention and eliminating crime blind spots in the region going forward.

Yang Seung-chan, Director of the Citizen Safety Office of the city, said, “By developing core human-centered artificial intelligence technologies and applying them to security CCTVs in the jurisdiction, we will make it possible to realize Daejeon as a ‘zero’ crime blind spot city and a safe community.”

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