VideoMining has an established track record of original, ground-breaking research on quantifying and understanding human behavior, with primary focus on shopper insights and audience measurement. VideoMining’s commitment to sustaining its technology leadership in automated human behavior analysis is reflected in the activities of its R&D group.

VideoMining is a leader not just in technology, but also a key voice in pushing for industry standards in the emerging field of Video Analytics. It has led performance evaluation efforts to help the Intelligence Community. It was selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to be part of one of four regional centers of Visual Analytics.

Here is a partial list from VideoMining’s patent portfolio. Due to the company’s Intellectual Property management policy, the list represents only selected patent subjects and issued patents for which VideoMining Corporation owns the legal rights.

U.S. patent office reference no.	Title
12/001,611	Method and system for media audience measurement and spatial extrapolation based on site, display, crowd, and viewership characterization
60/995,637	Method and system for measuring effectiveness of a marketing campaign on digital signage
11/818,485	Method and system for rating of out-of-home digital media network based on automatic measurement
60/921,890	Method and system for recognizing employees in a physical space based on automatic behavior analysis
60/906,951	Method and system for segmenting people in a physical space based on automatic behavior analysis
60/898,311	Method and system for optimizing the observation and annotation of complex human behavior from video sources
11/999,656	Method and system for automatically analyzing categories in a physical space based on the visual characterization of people
11/999,717	Method and system for analyzing shopping behavior in a store by associating RFID data with video-based behavior and segmentation data
60/855,223	Method and system for characterizing physical space based on automatic demographics measurement
11/901,691	Method and system for automatically measuring and forecasting the behavioral characterization of customers to help customize programming contents in a media network
11/818,554	Method and system for measuring viewership of people for displayed object
11/805,321	Method and system for automatically measuring and forecasting the demographic characterization of customers to help customize programming contents in a media network
11/880,421	Method and system for narrowcasting based on automatic analysis of customer behavior in a retail store
11/353,264	Method and system for event detection by multi-scale image invariant analysis
10/912,450	A method and system for event detection by analysis of linear feature occlusion
12/002,398	Automatic detection and aggregation of demographics and behavior of people
60/994,985	Method and system for age estimation based on relative ages of pairwise facial images of people
11/811,614	Method and system for robust demographic classification using pose independent model from sequence of face images
11/004,299	Classification of humans into multiple age categories from digital images
10/972,316	Demographic classification using image components
10/822,498	Method and system for enhancing three dimensional face modeling using demographic classification
10/747,757	Ethnicity classification of humans from digital images
10/694,607	Binary age classification of humans from digital images
10/452,972	Method for augmenting transaction data with visually extracted demographics of people using computer vision
11/495,934	Automatic detection and aggregation of demographics and behavior of people using computer vision
10/425,489	Method and system for selectively executing content on a device based on automatic recognition of demographic characteristics of an audience from video sequences
10/666,460	Prosody based audio/visual co-analysis for co-verbal gesture recognition
11/293,632	A method and system for estimating object dimensions in different locations in the image of a scene
11/650,492	A method and system for efficient annocation of object trajectories in image sequences
11/999,649	Object verification enabled network (OVEN)