Open-source AI tool 'WatchTower' automates video incident investigation locally

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WatchTower is an open-weight AI agent designed to automate video incident investigation for security teams. Users describe incidents in plain English, and the system searches footage, tracks objects, and generates evidence reports. The tool runs entirely on local hardware, ensuring no video data leaves the user's machine. It was developed during Hacktoberfest Hack Day Bengaluru '26 and uses models including Gemma 4, YOLOv8n, and CLIP.

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