Video processing and analysis for surveillance applications

Abstract

Presently researches in networked surveillance system grow continuously and substantially. One reason is because of the insecurity incidents such as terrorism acts in Thailand and many countries around the world. This results in the need of intelligent surveillance and monitoring system consisting of real-time image capture, transmission, processing, and surveillance information understanding. This information will be vital to people safety and indeed national security. Video Information Processing and Analysis for Surveillance System is a pilot project to realize such intelligent surveillance system developed by Thai researchers. The developed system consists of 6 parts, namely, super-resolution image reconstruction, suspect detection, suspect tracking, suspect appearance extraction, suspect activity analysis and level of awareness decision. The output information from the proposed system is suspect features, suspect activity pattern and direction, and level of suspicious incident. This would be very useful for the users to further analyze this information to use in practical surveillance system. ©2009 IEEE.