Abstract: A surveillance system receives video data of a monitored scene and identifies flows of motion in the scene. Specifically, a video camera communicates with a video recognition system, which identifies a flow motion region of a monitored scene and determines characteristics of the identified flow motion region.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2004
Date of Patent:
February 9, 2010
Assignee:
Verificon Corporation
Inventors:
Tiehan Lu, Ibrahim Burak Ozer, Wayne Wolf
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for providing real-time video surveillance of crowded environments. The method consists of several object detection and tracking processes that may be selected automatically to track individual objects or group of objects based on the resolution and occlusion levels in the input videos. Possible objects of interest (OOI) may be human, animals, cars etc. The invention may be used for tracking people in crowded environments or cars in heavy traffic conditions.