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Household security becomes more and more important with the growth of aged population. A surveillance robot is a potential solution for this issue. In this paper, we present a novel household surveillance robot with human recognition. Since a master-slaver structure and efficient interfaces are used for its hardware, this robot can always make prompt response to the outside information, even though...
The concept of active tracking is presented to simulate the characteristics of human vision in intelligent visual surveillance. The Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) camera is generally used for active tracking. In this paper, we present a novel and effective approach for active object tracking with a PTZ camera, and construct a near real-time system for indoor and outdoor scenes. The tracking algorithm of our...
Crowd density estimation is of importance in security monitoring. Many crowd disasters happened because of the loss of control of the crowd density. This paper presents an algorithm to estimate crowd density by employing Markov Random Field (MRF). Three types of image features are extracted for estimating, and they are affected more by the neighboring features than by others, meeting the properties...
The aging of population has become a social problem and fall is a major health risk in the elderly. To this end, this paper presents a novel approach for fall detection applied to an intelligent household surveillance robot. Silhouette based features are extracted, including aspect ratio of minimal bounding box of the human silhouette, approximated elliptical eccentricity, normalized central moments...
Video surveillance in crowded areas is becoming more and more significant for public security. This paper presents a method for the detection of abnormality in crowded scenes based on the crowd motion characteristics. These characteristics includes the crowd kinetic energy and the motion directions. This approach estimates the crowd kinetic energy and the motion directions based on the optical flow...
Crowd control and management is a very important task in public places. Historically, many crowd disasters happened because of the loss of control of the crowd flow direction. This paper presents an intelligent surveillance system based on RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) algorithm, which can estimate the crowd flow direction and classify people into different crowd groups. We calculate the optical...
In this paper, we present a texture-based multitarget tracking algorithm. Moving objects are described by local binary patterns (LBP), which is a kind of discriminative texture descriptor. The Kalman filter is introduced into the algorithm to predict the blob's new position and size. Blobs are searched in the neighborhood of the Kalman predictions. If more than one are found, the LBP distance, which...
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