The design, development and implementation of an imaging system for the automatic alarm interpretation of CCTY sequences using IKBS techniques

The assessment of alarm cause from a perimeter intrusion detection system is manpower intensive. Work by the Home Office has shown considerable benefits can accrue from the use of digital storage, replay and analysis of image sequences from surveillance CCTV. The design of the system is heavily dependent upon the number of cameras on site, the need (or otherwise) for pre-alarm triggering, the probable speed of movement of objects within the scene, and the likelihood of near simultaneous alarms occurring. The techniques used to classify the cause of an alarm are described in a further paper to be presented at the conference.