A surveillance system based on social networking and localization

Surveillance systems are developed to enhance security and safety by constantly observing locations of interest. Although those systems can observe scenes from each camera separately, it is difficult to keep track of any moving target across different cameras. This paper firstly proposes Video Diary Service (VDS) to solve this problem. VDS is an automatic diary service, which makes it possible to keep track of users' lives. In addition, VDS can identify social networking relationships among the users while each camera is watching multiple users. By exploiting these properties of VDS, we extend VDS into a new surveillance system called S-VDS. We also illustrate a few application scenarios where the proposed system can enhance security and safety.