ETRI is developing an AI technology to predict the possibility of risky situations, including criminal activities, by automatically analyzing CCTV video and past crime statistics. This will be of great help in ensuring the safety of our daily living environment and preventing damages caused by crime.
ETRI announced that it has been working on the “Source Technology of Predictive Video Security”, which predicts the likelihood of a specific type of crime by analyzing a situation identified from CCTV. It is expected to enable the prediction of four major crimes, including assault at certain times in certain areas. For example, from a scene in which a man and a woman are seen working within a certain distance of each other in the early morning hours in a region specified as a crime-vulnerable area, the system will display a high probability (%) of a crime occurring.

ETRI has developed an innovative thin film that freely expands and contracts according to its surroundings, thereby simulating the sweat glands of human skin. This means that temperature can be controlled with it in almost exactly the same way that the human sweat glands work.
ETRI announced its success in developing a heat sink element that can freely discharge heat by automatically opening at a higher temperature and closing at a lower temperature than 31℃, the temperature closest to that of the human skin. The achievement has been published online in “Advanced Materials”, a science journal renowned around the world..

ETRI has succeeded in dramatically modifying the way that the X-ray source - which has been in use for 120 years – works. Called the “Digital X-ray Source”, it basically converts the old analogue method into a digital one in order to dramatically reduce radiation exposure while boosting image quality, marking a significant turning point for the medical imaging industry.
ETRI announced that it is the first organization in the world to successfully commercialize a digital X-ray source based on the carbon nano tube (CNT). The excellence of the result has been acknowledged globally with its publication in established journals such as APL (Applied Physics Laboratory) of the U.S. and Nano Technology, while ETRI has signed tech transfer agreements with many Korean companies.

ETRI will soon start work with the very best brains in the world in the field of AI. This will help the Institute to secure source technologies in AI as well as promoting the global AI competitiveness of South Korea. On January 10, ETRI announced that it had entered into a partnership deal with MILA in Montreal, Canada. MILA was established by Professor Yoshua Bengio, arguably the greatest scholar in the fields of AI and deep-learning.

Given that each person has a unique physical structure, ETRI has developed a biometric technology that is free from copying and tampering, by identifying the delivery characteristics of signals. This achievement will mark a great turning point for next-generation security technologies.
ETRI explained that, based on the fact that the diverse components of a human body – such as bones, muscles, fat, blood vessels, blood and body fluids - vary from person to person and have a different structure and different degrees of complexity, its researchers used the deep learning technology to convert the signal system in order to create a personalized authentication mechanism.

ETRI announced its development of a transparent and super sensitive pressure sensor made with a nano composite material that is up to twenty times more sensitive than existing products. Published in the online edition of “Nature Communications” on January 31.
ETRI has successfully applied a new sensor material to a quantum dot layered structure to boost sensitivity while causing the contact area to light up, in order to allow pressure distribution to be checked in real time. The sensor will be used in diverse pressure sensor applications such as biometrics, wearables, and auxiliary medical devices.

The achievements of Korean researchers in contributing to the completion of the cancer genome map of humans were published in “Nature” on February 6. The researchers took part in the analysis of cancer genomes with a super computer along with a number of globally distinguished researchers. ETRI announced that MAHA, the bio-specific super computer it has developed in-house, joined the world's top human genome project, and the Institute itself has been widely referenced as a contributor to the analysis of human cancer genomes.