Toward building a robust and intelligent video surveillance system: a case study

With the proliferation of inexpensive cameras, availability of large-capacity disk storage, and the ubiquitous presence of high-speed, broad-band communication networks, it is now economically and technically feasible to construct and deploy multi-camera video surveillance systems. In line with this is the need of intelligent, robust, (semi-)automated video analysis paradigms to assist the operators in scene analysis and event classification. In this paper, we summarize our current research work toward realizing such a multi-camera video surveillance system. Interested readers can visit our web sites http://www.ece.ucsb.edu//sup /spl sim//echang and http://www.cs.ucsb.edu//sup /spl sim//yfwang for more information.