Chad Green, Director of Artificial Intelligence at Omnilert, presents the “Omnilert Gun Detect: Harnessing Computer Vision to Tackle Gun Violence” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In the United States in 2023, there were 658 mass shootings, and 42,996 people lost their lives to gun violence. Detecting and rapidly responding to potential and actual shootings in an automated fashion is critical to reducing these tragic figures. In 2020, Omnilert, a pioneer in emergency notification systems, launched Omnilert Gun Detect, an AI-powered platform that combines gun detection, verification, activation of security systems and notification.
In this talk, Green describes the development of Omnilert Gun Detect. He covers why computer vision is the right solution to this problem, how Omnilert went about building the product and the business and technical challenges overcome along the way. He also talks about Omnilert’s market traction, and concludes with lessons learned in building this important system.
See here for a PDF of the slides.
