Advances in Cooperative Multi-Sensor Video Surveillance
Takeo Kanade, Robert T. Collins, Alan J. Lipton, Peter J. Burt · 1999
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Sarnoff Corporation (Sarnoff) are performing an integrated feasibility demonstration of Video Surveillance and Monitoring (VSAM). The objective is to develop a cooperative, multi-sensor video surveillance system that provides continuous coverage over battlefield areas. Significant achievements have been demonstrated during VSAM Demo I in November 1997, and in the intervening year leading up to Demo II in October 1998. 1 Introduction The thrust of the VSAM Integrated Feasibility Demonstration (IFD) research program is cooperative multi-sensor surveillance to support enhanced battlefield awareness [ Kanade et al., 1997 ] . We are developing automated video understanding technology that will enable a single human operator to monitor activities over a complex area using a distributed network of active video sensors. Our advanced Video Understanding technology can automatically detect and track multiple people and vehicles within cluttered scenes, ...