Real-Time Video Analysis on an Embedded Smart Camera for Traffic Surveillance

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  • RTAS '04 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
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  • 2004

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Abstract

A smart camera combines video sensing, high-level videoprocessing and communication within a single embeddeddevice. Such cameras are key components in novel surveillancesystems.This paper reports on a prototyping development of asmart camera for traffic surveillance. We present its scalablearchitecture comprised of a CMOS sensor, digital signalprocessors (DSP), and a network processor. We furtherdiscuss the mapping of high-level video processing algorithmsto embedded DSP-based platforms and identify typicalpitfalls for the porting of software from desktops toembedded platforms. Our mapping strategies are demonstratedon an algorithm for automatic detection of stationaryvehicles. This algorithm is migrated from a Matlab-basedprototyping implementation to an embedded DSP implementationin our smart camera.Our implemented smart camera prototype streams thevideo data over an IP-network to a central monitoring stationand is able to detect stationary vehicles and blockingcargo on highways within the required real-time constraintsof six seconds.