The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has been recognized for its significant contributions to solving various social problems and improving citizen safety, from preventing urban accidents to cracking down on illegal dumping, through the development of core visual intelligence technologies for in-depth analysis of large-scale images and videos and their application to various environments.

ETRI announced that it received the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award for its 'Visual Intelligence DeepView' technology, which is a 'Citizen Safety Demonstration and Commercialization Using Public CCTV through Image Understanding Artificial Intelligence Core Technology' at the 2023 Korea Disaster and Safety Research and Development Awards Ceremony held at KINTEX in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province on the 13th, hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

The ETRI research team developed: △ a world-class visual feature extraction backbone network that can be used universally; △ visual intelligence learning technology that is robust to real-world environmental changes and overcomes learning data limitations; △ technology for solving local government safety issues and understanding real-world images.


The research team has secured core source technologies for image understanding AI by promoting the commercialization of these technologies, and has contributed significantly to empirical research to enhance citizen safety and enhance the competitiveness of related industries.

Deep View technology detects emergency rescuers who suddenly collapse in the city in real time through a video analysis engine linked to the local government CCTV video control system, ensuring safety. Blind spots have been eliminated.

In addition, it is expected to contribute significantly to the safety of citizens by linking with 112, 119, etc. to secure a quick response and golden time, preventing safety accidents and utilizing technology for emergency rescue measures.

Based on this, the researchers at the ETRI Visual Intelligence Lab have been recognized for their outstanding research achievements, including being selected as ETRI's representative achievement in 2020 and as one of the top 100 national research and development achievements twice in 2019 and 2021.

Additionally, we participated in the IFA Consumer Electronics Show (IFA), the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition held in Berlin, Germany last week, and widely publicized the research results of our visual intelligence deep view technology overseas.

It was well received by local German technicians and received offers for technology transfer consulting and international joint research.

In addition, deep view technology has achieved excellent results over the past five years, including 118 SCIE papers, 54 top-tier papers, 68 domestic and international patent registrations, and 120 applications.

Furthermore, by making visual intelligence-related learning data and core technologies publicly available, the company has significantly contributed to the revitalization of the domestic artificial intelligence research and industrial ecosystem, the discovery of new businesses utilizing visual intelligence technology, and the strengthening of corporate competitiveness.

ETRI Visual Intelligence Lab Principal Researcher Bae Yu-seok stated, "My colleagues and I have worked tirelessly to develop world-class core visual intelligence technologies and apply them to solve social problems. We will continue to contribute to Korea's AI industry by disseminating visual intelligence deep view technology across various fields."

ETRI Super Intelligence Creative Research Institute Director Min Ok-ki also said, “This is a technology that protects the safety of citizens by applying Deep View technology, an image analysis platform based on visual artificial intelligence, to solve real-world social problems. “As a representative technology in the field of artificial intelligence, which is a national strategic technology, we expect it to contribute greatly to the development of intelligent CCTV in the future,” he said.

This award is given by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety to discover and award excellent research and development achievements in the field of disaster and safety management across all ministries, thereby boosting researchers' pride and encouraging the creation of excellent research results.

The global market for safe cities is expected to grow from $29.5 billion in 2022 to $87 billion in 2030, with the video surveillance and analytics market, particularly related to this achievement, accounting for the largest share.

The research team is currently carrying out the project, 'Development of a high-performance visual discovery platform for (deep view) real-time large-scale image data understanding and prediction' as part of the Innovation Growth Engine Project (Artificial Intelligence) supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP).