Modeling Quality of Information in Multi-sensor Surveillance Systems

  • Authors:
  • M. Anwar Hossain;Pradeep K. Atrey;Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

  • Affiliations:
  • Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. anwar@mcrlab.uottawa.ca;Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. patrey@mcrlab.uottawa.ca;Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. abed@mcrlab.uottawa.ca

  • Venue:
  • ICDEW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Current surveillance systems use multiple sensors and media processing techniques in order to record/detect information of interest in terms of events. Assessing the quality of information (QoI) of a surveillance system is an important task as any misleading information may lead to suspicion, undesired consequences, and unwanted invasion of privacy. In this paper, we propose a model to characterize QoI in multi-sensor surveillance systems in terms of four quality parameters, which are: accuracy, certainty, time-liness and integrity. The proposed model is extendable to include other quality parameters if deemed necessary for different task-specific scenarios, such as the ambient intelligence environment, which aims to provide context-aware personalized services to the poeple living in that environment. To demonstrate the utility of the proposed method, we provide experimental results in a surveillance system designed for identifying authorized entry in the observation area.