Automated Video Surveillance

 

Automated Video Surveillance

Abstract 

With increased technology and population, surveillance is becoming key area in research. The best utilization of technology for the surveillance is the focus area today. The focus of the project would be to automate the detection of actions performed in front of camera. Monitoring the events on camera manually will not be possible. Even if the event had happened in the past, searching the same event in the video manually would cost a lot time. There is scope for automation which should detect those events and provide detailed textual result which can be processed easily. This project also considers effective way to store the video surveillance data consuming as small memory as possible along with smart index information. Video surveillance is an important security asset to control theft, traffic monitoring, banks, department stores, highways, crowded public places and borders. Key Words: surveillance, automation, search, compression, video data index.

International Status: 

Research on this topic is in boom in international market. Companies like Siemens, Samsung are investing into this project. Everyone have their own proprietary solutions in the market.

 National Status: 

Digital India, the initiative of government of India has esurveillance as main item in the agenda. Video surveillance is part of it. Government is very much serious about this initiative and taking it to the next level. Video surveillance is one of the fastest growing areas of commercial application of computer vision and machine learning techniques and a very lively area of academic research.

 METHODOLOGIES 

 Capturing 

 For capturing video at the time of development a computer web camera will be used. For the final product a CCTV camera with motion detector will be used. Advanced cameras with high resolution video, noise reduction audio and night vision are best for use as it provides more inputs to search index and artificial intelligence. 

Storing 

 For storing the video H.265 format will be used as it stores the same video in half of the size compared to regular MPEG format. There are lots of implementations available for H.265 encoding. One example is NGCodec.

Search Index 

Matlab will be used to write a code to find the textual information from video which can be indexed and used for search. Matlabs computer vision system toolbox is a good tool for image/video processing. Audio data of the video recording will also be considered for creating search index. Audio information actually provides precise information for index. It will create the textual index of human language and known things like bomb explosion, music etc. 

Artificial Intelligence 

Computer programs will be written using the best suitable language/tool which with the help of behavioral analysis can understand routine things. It will learn with respect to time and will start reporting things which are abnormal. These abnormal things will further be reported to different entities like police or doctor or an individual to analyses. The inputs from the individual will help AI program learn and make correct decisions in future. 

ADVANTAGES: 

The presence of CCTV camera system reduces crimes. 

1) Today security camera is a much needed thing to protect us and to preserve valuable properties. 

2) Along with the home improvement people are spending more money for security surveillance system.

 3) Security cameras are the image capturing devices varieties of security camera are found in the present day due to its increasing demand 

4) Security camera creates the safety environment for the children, elder people. 

5) Many companies have set up the security camera in the workplaces to measure the performance of the employee.