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
Retail Analytics
12/460,818	Method and system for detecting and tracking shopping carts from videos
12/459,281	Method and system for detecting shopping groups based on trajectory dynamics
12/455,295	Method and system for recognizing the intentions of shoppers in retail aisles based on their trajectories
12/459,283	Method and system for determining the impact of crowding on retail performance
12/386,654	Method for augmenting transaction data with visually extracted demographics of people using computer vision
12/386,655	Method and system for rating in-store media elements
12/386,656	Method and system for finding correspondence between face camera views and behavior camera views
12/317,918	Method and system for rating the role of a product category in the performance of a store area
12/313,635	Method and system for finding correspondence between point-of-sale data and customer behavior data
12/313,359	Method and system for efficient sampling of videos using spatiotemporal constraints for statistical behavior analysis
12/286,138	VIDEORE: Method and system for storing videos from multiple cameras for behavior re-mining
12/228,409	Method and system rating the strength of a brand in attracting shoppers relative to a product category
12/220,076	Method and system for collecting shopper response data tied to marketing and merchandising elements
12/215,877	Method and system for analyzing shopper behavior using multiple sensor tracking
12/215,879	Method and system for measuring shopper response to products based on behavior and facial expression
12/154,884	Method and system for measuring in-store location effectiveness using video-based analysis of shopper response
12/154,002	Method and system for measuring human response to visual stimulus based on changes in facial expression
12/079,624	Method and system for measuring packaging effectiveness using video-based analysis of in-store shopper response
12/079,258	Method and system for measuring the effectiveness of in-store marketing campaign
12/002,398	Automatic detection and aggregation of demographics and behavior of people
12/079,901	Method and system for recognizing employees in a physical space based on automatic behavior analysis
12/075,089	Method and system for segmenting people in a physical space based on automatic behavior analysis
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
11/978,021	Method and system for characterizing physical space based on automatic demographics measurement
Audience Measurement and Media Rating
12/459,282	Method and system for dynamically targeting content based on automatic demographics and behavior analysis
12/317,917	Method and system for measuring emotional and attentional response to dynamic digital media content
12/313,459	Method and system for evaluating content for digital displays by measuring viewer responses by demographic segments
12/011,611	"Method and system for media audience measurement and spatial extrapolation based on site, display, crowd, and viewership characterization"
12/283,606	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
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
Computer Vision
12/319,127	Method and system for determining the ethnic category of people based on facial images
12/286,233	Method and system for robust human ethnicity recognition using image feature-based probabilistic graphical models
12/221,552	"Method and system for estimating gaze target, gaze sequence, and gaze map from video"
12/157,087	Apparatus and method for hardware implementation of object recognition from an image stream using artificial neural network
12/079,276	Method and system for robust human gender recognition using facial feature localization
12/011,748	Method and system for determining the age category of people based on facial images
12/283,595	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
12/011,385	Method and system for optimizing the observation and annotation of complex human behavior from video sources
11/999,649	Object verification enabled network (OVEN)
12/011,650	Method and system for automatic analysis of the trip of people in a retail space using multiple cameras
11/650,492	A method and system for efficient annotation of object trajectories in image sequences
11/353,264	Method and system for event detection by multi-scale image invariant analysis
11/293,632	A method and system for estimating object dimensions in different locations in the image of a scene
7,319,779	Classification of humans into multiple age categories from digital images
7,505,621	Demographic classification using image components
10/912,450	A method and system for event detection by analysis of linear feature occlusion
10/822,498	Method and system for enhancing three dimensional face modeling using demographic classification<