Active camera video-based surveillance systems and methods
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1. A video surveillance system comprising:
- a sensing unit capable of being operated in a first mode and second mode; and
a computer system coupled to the sensing unit, the computer system receiving and processing image data from the sensing unit, detecting and tracking targets, and determining whether the sensing unit operates in the first mode or in the second mode based on the detection and tracking of targets.
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Abstract
A video surveillance system comprises a sensing unit capable of being operated in a first mode and second mode and a computer system coupled to the sensing unit. The computer system is adapted to receive and process image data from the sensing unit, to detect and track targets, and to determine whether the sensing unit operates in the first mode or in the second mode based on the detection and tracking of targets.
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62 Claims
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1. A video surveillance system comprising:
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a sensing unit capable of being operated in a first mode and second mode; and
a computer system coupled to the sensing unit, the computer system receiving and processing image data from the sensing unit, detecting and tracking targets, and determining whether the sensing unit operates in the first mode or in the second mode based on the detection and tracking of targets. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 44, 47, 51, 55)
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18. A method of operating a video surveillance system, the video surveillance system including at least one sensing unit capable of being operated in first and second modes, the method comprising the steps of:
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operating a sensing unit in the first mode to scan for targets;
processing image data from the sensing unit in a first mode to detect the presence of an interesting target;
upon detecting an interesting target, operating the sensing unit in the second mode to track the interesting target and to improve the quality of information about the interesting target over the information that can be obtained in the first mode; and
processing image data from the sensing unit in a second mode to track the target by sending at least one of pan, tilt, and zoom commands to the sensing unit. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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41. A motion detection module to determine camera motion, comprising:
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a corner detection module to find interesting points;
a search module to find matches for interesting points between successive images;
a confidence value assignment module to assign confidence values to the matches of the interesting points;
a robust averaging module to determine an estimate from a set of high confidence matches;
a warping module to warp one successive image to another successive image for direct comparison of the images; and
a subtraction module, which subtracts the warped image from a current image to determine which pixels have moved. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43)
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61. An apparatus for video surveillance comprising:
an apparatus adapted to be coupled to a sensing unit capable of being operated in a first mode and second mode, the apparatus adapted to receive and process image data from the sensing unit, detect and track targets, and determine whether the sensing unit operates in the first mode or in the second mode based on the detection and tracking of targets. - View Dependent Claims (62)
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