** IISc. researchers develop software platform for ‘smart’ video tracking

Anveshak’ can be used to track an object across a 1,000-camera network.

A key feature of the platform is that it allows a tracking model or algorithm to focus only on feeds from certain cameras along an expected route, and tune out other feeds. It can also automatically increase or decrease the search radius or “spotlight” based on the object’s last known position.

The platform enables the tracking to continue uninterrupted even if the resources ‒ the type and number of computers that analyse the feeds ‒ are limited, the rel