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... As with face recognition tech, Veritone Track uses AI to spot, identify, and follow people. But unlike facial recognition, it uses body size, gender, hair color, clothing, accessories, and more.

Police departments that use Track can choose attributes from a menu (specific types and colors of clothing, hats, backpacks, and other items), and then the system shows them video clips of people matching the user-selected criteria.

The system can also track vehicles by make and model, rather than by license plate, and it can stitch together clips from different cameras (CCTV, body cameras, drone footage, social media, and smartphone uploads) to build a timeline of location.

More than 400 clients, including police departments, universities, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and others, are already using Track, Veritone says. ...