Apparatus and methods for facial recognition and video analytics to identify individuals in contextual video streams

A method, comprising:

• receiving, at a host device and from a client device via a network, a signal indicative of a request to register facial image data associated with a user of the client device;
• registering the facial image data via facial recognition and image analysis;
• storing the facial image data and data associated with the registering in a database;
• receiving, at the host device, contextual video stream data including an indication of at least one facial image and data indicative of a coinciding event;
• analyzing the contextual video stream data via video analytics to determine if the contextual video stream data satisfies a criterion associated with identifying, via facial recognition, the facial image data in the contextual video stream data;
• defining user-specific data (1) representing a user-related video stream and (2) including an indication of the coinciding event, when the criterion is satisfied;
• and
• sending, from the host device to the client device, a signal indicative of an instruction to present the user-specific data on a display of the client device.

A system, comprising:

• an image capture assembly in communication with a network, the image capture assembly including at least one image capture device configured to capture video stream data, the video stream data being associated with a predetermined venue;
• and
• a host device having at least a processor and a memory, the host device being in communication with the network and a database, the host device configured to (1) receive facial image data of a user from a client device via the network, (2) register the facial image data via facial recognition and image analysis, and (3) store the facial image data in the database,
• the host device configured to receive the video stream data from the image capture assembly and contextual data associated with the predetermined venue and to define a confidence level based on comparing the video stream data to the facial image data and comparing the contextual data associated with the predetermined venue to contextual data associated with at least one of the user or the client device associated with the user, the host device configured to define user-specific data (1) representing at least one user-related image and (2) including an indication of a coinciding event occurring at the predetermined venue, the host device configured to send the user-specific data when the confidence level satisfies a criterion such that the client device associated with the user can access the user-specific data.