Unsupervised intrusion detection using color images

  • Authors:
  • Grant Cermak;Karl Keyzer

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

  • Venue:
  • ISVC'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a system to monitor a space and detect intruders. Specifically, the system analyzes color video to determine if an intruder entered the space. The system compares any new items in a video frame to a collection of known items (e.g. pets) in order to allow known items to enter and leave the space. Simple trip-line systems using infrared sensors normally fail when a pet wanders into the path of a sensor. This paper details an adaptation of the mean shift algorithm (described by Comaniciu et al.) in RGB color space to discern between intruders and benign environment changes. A refinement to the histogram bin function used in the tracking algorithm is presented which increases the robustness of the algorithm.