Distributed Surveillance System

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2005

Authors

dias, h (Author) Other; rocha, j (Author) Other; silva, p (Author) Other; leao, c (Author) Other; reis, lp (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2005 PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS

Pages: 257-261

Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Covilha, PORTUGAL, 2005

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 6 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-74X

DOI: 10.1109/epia.2005.341225

Abstract (EN): The present paper describes a Distributed Surveillance System that has the ability to detect, track and snapshot subjects moving around in a certain space. The system is composed by several surveillance agents and a central surveillance agent which communicates with them and process data. The surveillance agents are composed by a camera and a computer with wireless communication. The central surveillance agent runs on a computer also with wireless communication. In order to support the communication between the two types of agents, was created a language called VigilLANG. This language allows a high-level communication interface between the several surveillance agents and the central surveillance agent. The proposed surveillance system performs robust image segmentation providing the user images with the relevant information; provides robust subject detection and identification; supports expansion; etc. The system is totally configurable through the definition of new surveillance policies and may be easily expanded through the addition of new surveillance agents. The system was validated by performing a vast set of experiments, achieving very good results in the detection and position estimation of the subjects under surveillance.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5