This document discusses using Spark for online security analytics on large-scale video surveillance systems. It describes how Spark can be used to search across multiple video systems to identify individuals, correlate video and transaction data to detect fraud, and identify faces that were present at multiple robbery locations. It outlines challenges like fast data ingestion, multi-latency analytics, and scalable storage. It then presents EMC's Video Analytics Data Lake approach using Spark for offline and online video analytics like object detection, feature extraction, and abnormal detection.
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