The OBSERVER: an intelligent and automated video surveillance system

  • Authors:
  • Duarte Duque;Henrique Santos;Paulo Cortez

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Systems, Campus de Azurém, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal;Department of Information Systems, Campus de Azurém, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal;Department of Information Systems, Campus de Azurém, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this work we present a new approach to learn, detect and predict unusual and abnormal behaviors of people, groups and vehicles in real-time. The proposed OBSERVER video surveillance system acquires images from a stationary color video camera and applies state-of-the-art algorithms to segment and track moving objects. The segmentation is based in a background subtraction algorithm with cast shadows, highlights and ghost’s detection and removal. To robustly track objects in the scene, a technique based on appearance models was used. The OBSERVER is capable of identifying three types of behaviors (normal, unusual and abnormal actions). This achievement was possible due to the novel N-ary tree classifier, which was successfully tested on synthetic data.