| Pre-Seed Investment Success |
On April 1, 2021, following its seed investment, VECTORSIS Inc. recently secured a successful pre-seed investment from the XR Investment Association.
This 500 million KRW pre-seed funding is seen as a significant achievement that further validates the growth potential and innovation of VECTORSIS's intruder tracking system. The investment will be primarily directed towards strengthening the research team, enabling the company to solidify its market position more swiftly and securely. |
| Pre-Seed Investment |
On January 8, 2021, VECTORSIS Inc. successfully secured a 50 million KRW investment from Korea Angel Investment.
This investment was made in recognition of the company's technology for synthesizing CCTV footage in virtual spaces and applying deep learning-based video recognition to track and analyze intruders. This funding will enable VECTORSIS to actively advance its research and development efforts. |
| Selected as an AI Voucher Supplier |
Our company has been selected as an AI voucher supplier, providing AI solutions to SMEs and venture companies in need of AI applications.
The AI Voucher program is a national initiative designed to support AI solution purchases, facilitating digital transformation and fostering early markets for innovative AI solution companies. This initiative strengthens the competitiveness of the AI ecosystem by encouraging companies to adopt AI-based technology.
As a supplier, we offer a software platform enhanced for deep learning-based video recognition, specifically fine-tuned with YOLO (You Only Look Once) for improved recognition of people and vehicles in CCTV footage. This technology will be available to SMEs and venture companies requiring advanced video recognition capabilities. |
| Patent for ‘Video Surveillance System | Pantent No. 10-2152319 |
Our company recently successfully registered a patent for new technology related to video surveillance systems, in addition to the tracking system. The newly registered patent, titled "Method for Calculating the Position and Size of Objects in a 3D Space and Video Surveillance System Using It," enables object images to be mapped onto 3D layouts without distortion, even when the observer’s viewpoint changes.
This patent registration is a significant achievement, demonstrating VECTORSIS’s continuous efforts in research and development. The method for calculating the position and size of objects in 3D space will be used to enhance our upgraded solution, XRTS, addressing the issue of object distortion in existing VR solutions. This advancement is expected to provide improved quality and efficiency. |
| Patent for ‘Tracking System’ | Patent No. 10-2152318 |
Our company recently successfully registered a patent for new technology related to tracking systems. The newly registered patent, titled "Tracking System for Tracing Object Movement Paths," enables automatic tracking of an intruder in a surveillance area by continuously capturing and monitoring the intruder’s movement.
This invention allows tracking of an object’s movement path within a surveillance area, and even if the object enters a blind spot, the system can analyze adjacent surveillance areas to determine the movement path within that blind spot. |
| Leading a Paradigm Shift in the Video Security Market! In-Depth Analys.. |
[Introduction to VECTORSIS] VECTORSIS’s Immersive Auto-Tracking System is a surveillance system that integrates mixed reality and deep learning video recognition technology. By providing a smart environment where reality and virtual elements seamlessly connect, users can enjoy an enriched experience. For example, users can interact with a virtual pet on their palm, set up a virtual gaming environment in a real room, or rearrange virtual furniture within their home. Additionally, the system can create an environment where people in remote locations feel as if they are working together in the same space.
The system is designed to track designated intruders in real-time from both recorded and live camera footage, automatically switching video feeds and displaying movement paths in a 3D format. The Immersive Video Synopsis feature extracts objects appearing in long video recordings and combines them into a short summary video, drastically reducing the time required to review and replay footage and enabling users to quickly view all objects within a specific timeframe.
Moreover, it implements 3D mixed reality for an immersive video synopsis. VECTORSIS’s solution, developed with their existing VR software platform, is already in use at 150 sites. The Immersive Auto-Tracking System is planned for deployment across various public offices, military bases, educational institutions, and companies, while the Immersive Video Synopsis will be offered to building sites and individual users. [Dark Horse in the AI CCTV and Video Analysis Solution Field - Part 2: VECTORSIS] Implementing 3D Virtual Reality in Video Security, Like in Gaming Founded in 2017, startup VECTORSIS has developed its own proprietary virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) software platform, essential for immersive video surveillance systems. CEO Taehoon Kang, who has experience with 3D engine software development since his college days, has worked on a wide array of 3D visualization projects, including geographic information systems, robotics simulations, gaming, and medical applications. Before founding VECTORSIS, he licensed their VR software platform to a physical security company, establishing a royalty based business model. This year, VECTORSIS was selected as a finalist in the accelerator program organized by SK Telecom. Launched last year, the SK Telecom Accelerator Program is a startup nurturing initiative designed to discover new business opportunities through collaboration with creative and innovative partners.
Collaboration with Skilled Talent Worldwide VECTORSIS’s competitive edge lies in its possession of core technology for real-time 3D graphics processing—fundamental for virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) software—and its ability to go beyond merely using existing deep learning technologies. The company has the capability to customize and design its own neural network models.Since its inception, VECTORSIS has collaborated with a skilled AI developer from Russia to integrate AI functions into its software platform, enabling the development of intelligent video surveillance and analysis systems. The company has also partnered with experts from around the world, including those outside Russia, as needed to enhance system development. This global collaboration is possible because, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, VECTORSIS had implemented remote work for its Russian and some domestic staff and established efficient security and management systems to support it.Recently, VECTORSIS recruited a Ph.D. holder in AI, which has enabled the company to significantly improve object recognition accuracy through fine-tuning of its deep learning-based video recognition technology. As a result, VECTORSIS has been registered as an AI solution provider with the National IT Industry Promotion Agency and is moving towards completing an immersive and intelligent video surveillance and analysis system, accompanied by patent applications for its Immersive Auto-Tracking System.Virtual Reality Patrol and Access Control System Traditional video surveillance systems present camera footage in a grid layout, making it challenging to assess the actual space associated with each video and to identify structural connections between video feeds. To address this, VECTORSIS developed and licensed a VR software platform that visualizes buildings in 3D virtual spaces, mapping real-time camera footage onto building walls to provide an immersive observation perspective.The Virtual Patrol System using the VR software platform allows managers to patrol building interiors as if viewing them directly, with options to set automatic, rotating views at specific points and display current camera locations on a floor plan. The integration of fingerprint recognition with this VR platform creates the Virtual Reality Access Control System, which enables users to check the 3D location of entry points in virtual space and perform functions like opening, closing, or locking doors. This Virtual Patrol and Access Control System has been deployed in 150 sites, including public offices, military bases, and educational institutions.
Immersive & Intelligent Video Surveillance Analysis System The Immersive & Intelligent Video Surveillance Analysis System advances the capabilities of the Virtual Reality Patrol and Access Control System, incorporating mixed reality and deep learning video recognition technologies. Mixed Reality (MR) encompasses both augmented reality (AR), which overlays virtual information on the real world, and augmented virtuality (AV), which adds real-world information into a virtual environment. This smart, seamlessly connected environment of reality and virtuality offers users an enriched experience. For instance, users can interact with a virtual pet on their palm, set up a virtual gaming environment within a real room, rearrange furniture virtually, or create a collaborative workspace where remote participants feel as though they are working together in the same room.
Over the past five years, VECTORSIS has applied its VR software platform to video surveillance and access control systems, discovering two key issues from field use despite its major advantage of facilitating spatial understanding of buildings.
First, the need for managers to manually adjust observation points posed a challenge in urgent situations like intrusions, where this adjustment could become a hindrance. A proposed solution suggested that automating the shift of observation points to critical locations, such as the site of a fire or intrusion, would significantly enhance system usability.
Second, mapping camera footage onto building walls led to limitations where moving objects appeared distorted, creating elongated shadows. To address this, VECTORSIS recognized the need to integrate mixed reality technology, separating moving objects through object recognition and synthesizing them into the building’s virtual space. An interview with a university control room revealed that tracking an intruder’s entry and exit route across campus could take over six hours, as routes needed to be documented and provided to law enforcement. It became evident that automatically tracking and displaying a person’s path would make the system truly groundbreaking.
In response to these requirements, VECTORSIS developed the Immersive Auto-Tracking System, which automatically tracks intruder movements and visualizes their path in 3D. The system is designed to track designated intruders in real-time from both recorded and live camera feeds, automatically switching views and displaying movement paths in 3D. Furthermore, the Video Synopsis feature, expected to be commercially available in September, uses the company's object recognition technology to compile and display objects appearing within a specified timeframe into a short video, significantly reducing video playback time. |