Fast forensic video event retrieval using geospatial computing

  • Authors:
  • Hongli Deng;Mun Wai Lee;Asaad Hakeem;Omar Javed;Weihong Yin;Li Yu;Andrew Scanlon;Zeeshan Rasheed;Niels Haering

  • Affiliations:
  • ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia;ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia;ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia;ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia;ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia;ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia;ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia;ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia;ObjectVideo, Inc., Reston, Virginia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a fast forensic video events analysis and retrieval system in a geospatial framework. Starting from tracking targets and analyzing video streams from distributed camera networks, the system generates video tracking metadata for each video, maps and fuses them in a uniform geospatial coordinate. The combined metadata is saved into spatial database where target trajectories are represented in geometry and geography data type. Powered by spatial functions of database, various video events such as crossing a line, entering an area, loitering and meeting, are detected by executing stored procedures that we have implemented. Geographic information system(GIS) data of Tiger-Line and GeoNames are integrated with this system to provide contextual information for more advanced forensic queries. A semantic data mining system is also attached to generate text descriptions of events and scene contextual information. The NASA World Wind is the geobrowser used to submit queries and visualize result. The main contribution of this system is that it initiates in running video event retrieval using geospatial computing techniques. This interdisciplinary combination makes this system scalable and manageable for large amount of video data from distributed cameras. It also makes the online video search possible by filtering tremendous amount of data efficiently using geospatial index techniques. From the application point of view, it extends the frontier of geospatial application by presenting a forward-looking application model.