Flexible surveillance system architecture for prototyping video content analysis algorithms
Rob G. J. Wijnhoven, Egbert G. T. Jaspers, Peter H. N. de With · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
Many proposed video content analysis algorithms for surveillance applications are very computationally intensive, which limits the integration in a total system, running on one processing unit (e.g. PC). To build flexible prototyping systems of low cost, a distributed system with scalable processing power is therefore required. This paper discusses requirements for surveillance systems, considering two example applications. From these requirements, specifications for a prototyping architecture are derived. An implementation of the proposed architecture is presented, enabling mapping of multiple software modules onto a number of processing units (PCs). The architecture enables fast prototyping of new algorithms for complex surveillance applications without considering resource constraints.