Professor Michael Brooks

The impact of visual intelligence: keeping you safe and secure.

The secret to fighting crime is staying one step ahead. Professor Michael Brooks and his team at the University of Adelaide have found a way of using artificial intelligence to outwit criminal intent.

Mike and his team know that the number of surveillance cameras is not the problem. The difficulty in keeping us safe is that there can never be enough people to monitor the videos for suspicious behaviour.

Mike’s team in the University’s Australian Centre for Visual Technologies has developed a way of getting cameras and computers to identify suspicious behaviour on their own - then follow it from camera to camera, location to location.

This technology has already been employed on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and in a range of international locations, including the airports and shopping centres we use.

“We can now monitor much more than we have in the past.”

“This leading edge research is building business opportunities for Australian firms and helping to keep everyday Australian families safe and secure. Families like mine.”