Violence, Parenting, and Video Analytics

Raising a child is a painstaking task.

Not only is the parents responsibility for leading the child to a bright future, they are in charge of shielding negative forces that may have a harmful impact. I would like to focus on one such forces, violence, and how video analytics may help protect children from growing up thinking violence is a part of daily life. Here I am not referring to physically guarding children from violence. Instead, video analytics can help children from being the perpetrator of violence.

As some research suggests, exposure to violent TV programs and movies makes children behave more aggressive and increases the chance of them being convicted of a violent crime in the future. What video analytics can do is to detect and remove violent scenes by identifying blood pigments as suggested in an article titled “VIOLENT SCENE DETECTION IN MOVIES” published in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. By being able to filter the content, children are saved from exposure to violence even when they are out of the reach from their parents. 

Thanks to video analytics parents have one less item on their parenting checklist.

Violent scene from a movie    

(Source: “VIOLENT SCENE DETECTION IN MOVIES”)

Video analytics identifying blood pigments from the same scene