Abstract
Since their first developments, traditional video surveillance systems have been designed to monitor environments. However, these systems have several limitations to automatically understand events and behaviours without human collaboration. In order to overcome this problem, intelligent surveillance systems arise as a possible solution. This kind of systems are not affected by negative factors such as fatigue or tiredness and they can be more effective than people when recognising certain kinds of events, such as the detection of suspicious or unattended objects. Intelligent surveillance refers to using Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision techniques in order to improve traditional surveillance and process semantic information, obtained from low-level security devices. Normally these systems consist of a set of independent analysis modules that deal with particular problems, such as the trajectory analysis of pedestrian in parking lots, speed estimation of vehicles, gait or facial recognition, etc. However, most of them present a common problem: lack of flexibility and scalability to include new kinds of analysis and combine all of them in order to obtain a global interpretation. In this work, a formal model to define normal events and behaviours in monitored environments and to build scalable surveillance systems is presented. This model is based on the use of normality components, which are independent and reusable for environments with different characteristics and different kinds of objects. Each component specifies how an object should ideally behave according to a surveillance aspect, such as trajectory or velocity. The model also includes the fusion mechanisms required for combining the particular analysis made by each component. Finally, when a new component is designed making use of the proposed model, the system increases its abilities to detect new kind of abnormal events, and the normality of an object depends on a higher number of factors.
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Albusac, J., Castro-Schez, J.J., Vallejo, D., Jiménez-Linares, L., Glez-Morcillo, C. (2011). A Scalable Approach Based on Normality Components for Intelligent Surveillance. In: Remagnino, P., Monekosso, D.N., Jain, L.C. (eds) Innovations in Defence Support Systems – 3. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18278-5_6
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