Saint Vincent Hospital resident uses Nouse to point and click (CBC)

"At right time at right place" - that's how Dr. Dmitry Gorodnichy felt back in 2001 when, having a freedom of choosing a new research direction within a newly formed Computational Video group of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and realizing that the "Era of real-time video processing" has just arrived and searching for the best fit for his two-sided expertise (PhD on Neural Intelligence and PhD on Robot Vision),  he established a new project  focused on real-time processing and recognition of video data. 

This project, first called Perceptual Vision (www.perceptual-vision.com) and then renamed to  Video Recognition Systems (www.videorecognition.com), became the first in Canada and one of the first in the world with the focus on developing technologies for real-time automated understanding of video data. It was also one of the most successful projects of the NRC*.

Following the termination of this project in 2007 due to Work-Force Alignment conducted by the organization, and in order to safe-guard the no-longer supported Video Recognition technology and the knowledgbase - in particular, the Nouse^® technology which has been already significantly relied upong by several Ottawa long-care practitioners and residents, Dr. Dmitry Gorodnichy with the help of his wife Alexandra Gorodnichy, who has MBA in addition to her Enginering Diploma, creates a company IVIM Inc.

NRC Commisionair uses ACE Surveillance to track down the suspecious activities

In July 2008 Dr. Dmitry Gorodnichy joins the Canada Border Services Agency, where he helps to create a new Section on Video Surveillance and Biometrics within the Agency's  Laboratory and Scientific Services Directorate. While his personal involvement in the company's business becomes limited, the company sees the increase of support from its partners and clients.

* NRC/IIT Video Recognition Systems project highlights:

Over its six-year long history, the project ...

1. ... produces unique highly acclaimed technologies for
   1) Vision-based computer control (Nouse^®) - currently tested by Ottawa long-care Health facilities,
   2) Automated Surveillance (ACE Surveillance™) - used by NRC Commissionaires and requested by several Security companies,
   3) Face Recognition from Video (FRiV) - requested by DND and several Security companies.
2. ... is featured in three NRC Excellence Reports (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005*) and by many national and international media.
3. ... becomes one of the first to establish Intelligent Video as an independent area of research, introducing such terms as "Video Recognition" (2004) and  "Face Processing" (2003) which are now used by many in the filed, and organizing the first International Workshops and  tutorials in the new area.
4. ... becomes an important source of expertize in the area of Intelligent Video for many Canadian funding agencies (IRAP, NSERC, AIF, CCIFF), security companies and federal departments.
5. ... becomes the initiator and coordinator of the interdepartmental Initiative on Video Technology for National Security, and the first  Canadian partner of the DTO Video Analysis and Content Extraction program. 
6. Its leader receives several federal and national awards (NRC, CIPPRS) and is nominated  the "Leader of Tomorrow" by  the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Science PAGSE.