Survey of the key techniques in video processing for surveillance and a pioneering surveillance network

This paper is composed of two parts: firstly to bring home to readers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction of the achievements in the field of video surveillance, specifically, of the software algorithms. We review the state-of-the-art techniques ranging from the preliminary visual processing of foreground detection, to mid-level object tracking, and highlevel action recognition, which play central roles in automated surveillance systems for a wide variety of applications. Secondly, we demonstrate our pioneering surveillance architecture based on IP camera, media server and characterized by scalability and shareability. To our knowledge, such a kind of surveillance framework is introduced for the first time.