Vijayan K Asari
University of Dayton, USA
Title: Wide area surveillance: Situational awareness for security automation
Biography
Biography: Vijayan K Asari
Abstract
Wide area surveillance refers to an automated monitoring process that involves data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation for understanding object behaviors. Automated surveillance systems are mostly used for military, law enforcement, and commercial applications. Sensors of different types and characteristics in surface-based or aerial-based platforms are used for the acquisition of data of large areas sometimes covering several square miles. Intelligent visual surveillance is becoming more popular in applications such as human identification, activity recognition, behavior analysis, anomaly detection, alarming, etc. Detection, tracking, and identification of moving objects in a wide area surveillance environment have been an active research area in the past few decades. Object motion analysis and interpretation are integral components for activity monitoring and situational awareness. Real-time performance of these data analysis tasks in a very wide field of view is an important need for monitoring in security and law enforcement applications. Although huge strides have been made in the field of computer vision related to technology development for automatic monitoring systems, there is a need for robust algorithms that can perform detections of individuals in a surveillance environment. This is mainly because of certain constraints such as partial occlusions of the body, heavily crowded scenes where people are very close to each other, etc. We present a robust automated system which can detect and identify people by automated face recognition in a surveillance environment and track their actions and activities by a spatio-temporal feature tracking mechanism.