Our breakthrough software approach turns passively collected video images into useful sources of information.  Much more than individual event detection, Perception-Based Analytics™ enables rich, real-time annotation of video content, capturing people, vehicles and objects along with their patterns of motion.  The result is the ability to use video analytics in ways that far surpass simple alarm functions.  Analytics-enabled routing and storage drastically reduces bandwidth usage and archiving space needs.  Intelligent event reporting turns video surveillance systems into real-time tools for crime interdiction.  Rapid, highly accurate video content search becomes a reality.

Video analytics is now an accepted and essential capability for managing video in large systems.  Cernium is committed to maintaining its technology leadership role in this field while providing new and innovative solutions to the challenges of making video a useful and positive element of our lives.

The name Cernium is derived from the root word ”cernere” meaning ”to perceive”. 

DISCERN: (verb) 1. To perceive with the eyes or intellect; detect. 2. To recognize or comprehend mentally. 3. To perceive or recognize as being different or distinct; distinguish. from Latin discernere, to separate dis-, apart; + cernere, to perceive.