Multi-modal Incident Prediction via Video-to-Text Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional techniques for surveillance and incident investigation require significant manual efforts and inefficient data processing, leading to delays, inaccuracies, and wastage of computing resources due to the need to sift through disparate and often obsolete data sources.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a multi-modal analysis system that uses AI techniques to predict potential incident events by converting video data into text summaries, employing object detection, natural language processing, and situational analysis to identify relevant data structures and alert systems, thereby optimizing data retrieval and processing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual techniques are used to determine data sources and retrieve incident data, then investigators can access relevant information, but significant manual effort and time are required leading to delays and inefficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincident investigation efficiencyVSAvoidincident response time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by proactively monitoring data sources and predicting potential incident events before they occur. The predictive analytics engine continuously analyzes data patterns and generates predictions in advance, so when an incident actually happens, the relevant data structures are already identified and prepared, eliminating the need for manual data source determination during the incident response.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically determining appropriate data sources and retrieving relevant data without requiring manual investigator intervention. The predictive analytics engine autonomously identifies patterns, selects data sources, and prepares data structures, allowing the system to serve itself in the data collection and preparation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive data from multiple sources is collected for incident investigation, then accuracy of incident analysis is improved, but computing resources are wasted processing disparate and obsolete data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincident data accuracyVSAvoidcomputing resource efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary filtering and validation of data sources before incidents occur. The predictive analytics engine pre-identifies relevant data structures and filters out obsolete or irrelevant data sources in advance, so that during incident response, only pre-validated relevant data needs to be processed, eliminating waste of computing resources on obsolete data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by treating different data sources differently based on their relevance and quality characteristics. Rather than uniformly processing all available data, the predictive analytics engine identifies and focuses computational resources on specific high-quality, relevant data sources for each incident type, optimizing the balance between accuracy and resource efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If traditional surveillance systems monitor all data sources continuously, then no incident is missed, but computing resources are inefficiently employed processing irrelevant data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincident detection completenessVSAvoiddata processing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of data patterns and incident indicators before actual incidents occur. The predictive analytics engine continuously monitors data sources but uses AI techniques to pre-identify potential incident patterns, allowing the system to focus full monitoring resources only on predictive alerts that indicate actual incidents, rather than uniformly processing all data continuously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial monitoring by focusing computational resources on the most critical predictive indicators and data sources rather than continuously analyzing all available data in equal detail. The predictive analytics engine identifies key risk factors and concentrates monitoring efforts on those specific areas, achieving reliable incident detection with more efficient resource utilization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11983186B2Predicting potential incident event data structures based on multi-modal analysis
Publication Date: 2024.05.14 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC
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AI summary

Various embodiments described herein relate to predicting potential incident event structures based on multi-model analysis. In this regard, a potential incident event with respect to aggregated data associated with one or more data sources is identified. In response to the potential incident event, one or more potential incident event data structures are identified based at least in part on the aggregated data. Additionally, in response to the potential incident event, one or more actions are performed based at least in part on the one or more potential incident event data structures.