A learning approach to interactive browsing of surveillance content

  • Authors:
  • Anders Jonsson;Christophe Parisot;Christophe De Vleeschouwer

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;ACIC Boulevard Initialis, Mons, Belgium;Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Fourth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel application for interactive browsing of (recorded) surveillance content. The application is based on user feedback and enables an operator to switch between camera views that are likely to contain the same activity. Our system relies on off-the-shelf background-subtraction activity detection mechanisms. We use two techniques from machine learning to automatically learn the topology of surveillance camera networks. The first technique identifies connections between camera views for which objects are temporarily out of view, while the second technique identifies overlap between views. Testing on an actual surveillance camera network suggests that the approach is both accurate and robust, despite the simplicity of the involved computer vision methods.