IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT DEVICE OF OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM AND OBJECT TRACKING METHOD

• US 20120120248A1
• Filed: 11/16/2011
• Published: 05/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: HAN, Jong-Wook, KIM, GEONWOO, CHOI, SuGil, HAN, Jin Hee, KIM, Moo Seop, KIM, Young Sae, JEON, Yong-Sung, HAN, Min-ho, PARK, Su Wan, JU, Hong IL
• Application Number:
  US13/297,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20120120248A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/169
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/173 face re-identification, e.g. recognising unknown faces across different face tracks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

An image photographing device of an object tracking system includes: an image recognizing module for collecting image information within a field of view (FOV) region in real time, recognizing occurrence of an event from the collected image information to extract an object contributing to the occurrence of the event, and sensing whether the extracted object is out of the FOV region or not. The device further includes an object tracking module for extracting property of the object from the extracted object to generate metadata, storing the metadata in a database, and providing the metadata stored in the database to ambient image photographing devices based on the sensing result of the image recognizing module.

Claims

1. An image photographing device of an object tracking system comprising:

an image recognizing module for collecting image information within a field of view (FOV) region in real time, recognizing occurrence of an event from the collected image information to extract an object contributing to the occurrence of the event, and sensing whether the extracted object is out of the FOV region or not; and

an object tracking module for extracting property of the object from the extracted object to generate metadata, storing the metadata in a database, and providing the metadata stored in the database to ambient image photographing devices based on the sensing result of the image recognizing module.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein when metadata on a certain object is received from the ambient image photographing devices, the object tracking module stores the received metadata in the database.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein similarity is measured by comparing the generated metadata with the metadata stored in the database, and information on the extracted object is transmitted to a security management server connected via a wired/wireless communication network based on the measured similarity.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the object tracking module transmits information on the extracted object to a security management server connected via a wired/wireless communication network after generating the metadata.

5. The device of claim 3, wherein the device performs communications with the security management server using an asynchronous message protocol that is operated on user datagram protocol (UDP) of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stacks.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the device performs communications with the security management server using an asynchronous message protocol that is operated on user datagram protocol (UDP) of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stacks.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the device performs communication with an image photographing device connected to the device itself using an asynchronous message protocol that is operated on UDP of TCP/IP protocol stacks.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the metadata includes color information, shape information, travel information on the object, and a ratio of correctness or identifier of the metadata.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein the color information includes a front side and a rear side, each of which has hair, face, upper body, lower body, and foot when the object is a human being.

10. The device of claim 7, wherein the shape information includes object height and an item which is information of determining whether the object carries a thing on his/her hands when the object is a human being.

11. A security management device of an object tracking system connected with multiple image photographing devices, the device comprising:

a database in which position information on each of the image photographing devices is stored;

an information receiver for receiving information on an object contributing to occurrence of an event from any of the image photographing devices; and

a travel path generator for generating a travel path of the object by using the position information of said any of the image photographing devices having transmitted the information on the object.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the device performs communications with the image photographing devices using an asynchronous message protocol that is operated on user datagram protocol (UDP) of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stacks.

13. An object tracking method of an image photographing device comprising:

when an object contributing to occurrence of an event exists within a field of view (FOV) region, extracting property of the object to generate metadata;

storing the generated metadata in a database, and transmitting the metadata to a security management server connected via a wired/wireless communication network; and

when the object is out of the FOV region, transmitting the metadata on the object to ambient image photographing devices.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

when a certain object enters the FOV region, generating metadata on the certain object;

when metadata exists in the database, calculating similarity between the metadata on the certain object and the metadata stored in the database; and

transmitting information on the certain object to the security management server based on the similarity, and updating the database with the metadata on the certain object.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

generating, at the security management server, a travel path of an object contributing to occurrence of an event by using position information of an image photographing device having transmitted the information on the object.