Understand traffic trends and violations in a city scape with BriefCam Video Content Analytics. By making video searchable, BriefCam enables users to review video with speed and precision based on object class and attribute filters, face recognition, license plate recognition, direction, speed, visual layer heatmaps and more, as well as combinations of these. BriefCam Video Content Analysis and VIDEO SYNOPSIS technologies empower city officials to review video to pinpoint objects and behaviors of interest to drive intelligent decision making for traffic optimization and law enforcement and, ultimately, safe cities for pedestrian and vehicle traffic.