Download or read book Design and Field Evaluation of a System for Integrating Closed Circuit Television Cameras CCTV with Video Image Vehicle Detection Systems VIVDS written by Hema Tanikella and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integrated CCTV VIVDS Prototype Field Test written by Brian L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has invested in extensive closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems to monitor freeways in urban areas. Generally, these devices are installed as part of freeway management systems (Smart Traffic Centers [STCs]). Although CCTVs have proven to be very effective in supporting incident management, they simply provide images that must be interpreted by trained operators--not measures of traffic conditions (such as flow rate and average speeds). A previous study completed by the University of Virginia and Virginia Transportation Research Council concluded, however, that it is feasible to integrate CCTV with video image vehicle detection systems (VIVDS) currently on the market to provide the ability to measure traffic conditions. The purpose of this research effort was to develop, deploy, and evaluate an integrated CCTV/VIVDS system (referred to as Phase II Autotrack) in an operational STC. Based on a field evaluation at the Hampton Roads STC, it was concluded that Phase II Autotrack effectively measures traffic volumes and that the system effectively measures speed during daylight conditions. This proves that an integrated CCTV/VIVDS system should be aggressively developed and finalized to supplement, and at times, replace, existing loop detectors in Virginia. For example, if VDOT were to replace only one quarter of the loops in the Hampton Roads STC with integrated CCTV/VIVDS, it is estimated that the agency would realize a capital/installation savings of $4.9 million and would reduce operating costs by $230,000 per year. Based on these conclusions, the following recommendations have been offered to VDOT: 1. VDOT's Mobility Management Division should coordinate the installation and use of Phase II Autotrack at four existing CCTV locations throughout the Commonwealth. 2. The Virginia Transportation Research Council should continue the development of Phase II Autotrack in order to improve speed measurement performance. 3. The Virginia Transportation Research Council should develop a Phase III Autotrack to investigate the use of additional image-processing capabilities to support STC operations.

Download or read book Camera Positioning and Calibration Techniques for Integrating Traffic Surveillance Video Systems with Machine vision Vehicle Detection Devices written by Brian L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virginia Department of Transportation, like many other transportation agencies, has invested significantly in extensive closed circuit television (CCTV) systems to monitor freeways in urban areas. Although these systems have proven very effective in supporting incident management, they do not support the collection of quantitative measures of traffic conditions. Rather, they simply provide a moveable platform for trained operators to collect images for further interpretation. Although there are several video image vehicle detection systems (VIVDS) on the market that have the capability to derive traffic measures from video imagery automatically, these systems currently require the installation of fixed-position cameras. Thus, they have not been integrated with the existing moveable CCTV cameras. This research effort addressed VIVDS camera repositioning and calibration challenges and developed a prototype machine-vision system that successfully integrates existing moveable CCTV cameras with VIVDS. Results of testing the prototype in a laboratory setting demonstrated that when the camera's original zoom level was at a level of 1x to 1.5x, the system could return the camera to its original position with a repositioning accuracy of less than 0.03 to0.1 degree. This is significantly less that the 0.5-degree accuracy of mechanical camera presets and indicates that such an approach provides the accuracy needed for CCTV/VIVDS integration. This level of positional accuracy, when combined with a VIVDS, resulted in vehicle count errors of less than 1%. Based on these results, the integration of CCTV and VIVDS is feasible, thus paving the way for less costly, more easily maintained traffic monitoring systems in future intelligent transportation system initiatives.

Download or read book Closed Circuit Television written by Joe Cieszynski and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance is one of the fastest growing areas in the security industry. This book is an essential guide for professionals involved the installation and maintenance of CCTV systems, system design, specification and purchasing and the management of CCTV systems. Unlike most existing books on CCTV, this title is not just a discussion of security issues, but a thorough guide to the technical side of the subject - cameras and monitors, video recording, cabling and transmission, installation and maintenance.The concise, accessible text makes it for hard-pressed practitioners and students on training courses.The second edition is fully dual-standard for PAL and NTSC systems. New material in the second edition covers lighting issues and equipment, digital signal transmission, integrated CCTV / intruder alarm systems, CAT5 cabling, digital recording, video printers, ancillary equipment, and a glossary.This book is recommended by SITO (the Security Industry Training Organisation, UK) as suitable for its courses, the City and Guilds 1851 programme, and the underpinning knowledge requirement of Level 3 NVQs from SITO / C & G. Joe Cieszynski is a well known magazine writer and a contributor to the SITO distance learning materials on CCTV. He has extensive experience in the industry and as a lecturer. * Demystifies CCTV technology for installers and managers* Concise, accessible text ideal for hard-pressed practitioners and students* Fully dual-standard coverage for PAL and NTSC based systems

Download or read book Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance written by Andrew Senior and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance offers the state of the art from leading researchers and experts in the field. This broad ranging volume discusses the topic from various technical points of view and also examines surveillance from a societal perspective. A comprehensive introduction carefully guides the reader through the collection of cutting-edge research and current thinking. The technical elements of the field feature topics from MERL blind vision, stealth vision and privacy by de-identifying face images, to using mobile communications to assert privacy from video surveillance, and using wearable computing devices for data collection in surveillance environments. Surveillance and society is approached with discussions of security versus privacy, the rise of surveillance, and focusing on social control. This rich array of the current research in the field will be an invaluable reference for researchers, as well as graduate students.

Download or read book Travel Survey Methods Information Technology and Geospatial Data written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Video Surveillance Techniques and Technologies written by Zeljkovic, Vesna and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents empirical research and acquired experience on the original solutions and mathematical algorithms for motion detection and object identification problems, emphasizing a wide variety of applications of security systems"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Intelligent Network Video written by and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering ready access to the security industry’s cutting-edge digital future, Intelligent Network Video provides the first complete reference for all those involved with developing, implementing, and maintaining the latest surveillance systems. Pioneering expert Fredrik Nilsson explains how IP-based video surveillance systems provide better image quality, and a more scalable and flexible system at lower cost. A complete and practical reference for all those in the field, this volume: Describes all components relevant to modern IP video surveillance systems Provides in-depth information about image, audio, networking, and compression technologies Discusses intelligent video architectures and applications Offers a comprehensive checklist for those designing a network video system, as well as a systems design tool on DVD Nilsson guides readers through a well-organized tour of the building blocks of modern video surveillance systems, including network cameras, video encoders, storage, servers, sensors, and video management. From there, he explains intelligent video, looking at the architectures and typical applications associated with this exciting technology. Taking a hands-on approach that meets the needs of those working in the industry, this timely volume, illustrated with more than 300 color photos, supplies readers with a deeper understanding of how surveillance technology has developed and, through application, demonstrates why its future is all about intelligent network video.

Download or read book Intelligent Network Video written by Fredrik Nilsson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition traces the trajectory of video surveillance technology from its roots to its current state and into its potential future role in security and beyond. For the reader, it is an opportunity to explore what the latest technology has to offer, as well as to gain some insight into the direction that surveillance will take us in the years ahead. The revised edition of Intelligent Network Video is more comprehensive in every area than the first and second editions, printed in over 25,000 copies. There is also a new chapter on cybersecurity, as well as thoroughly revised chapters on cloud and analytics. The book takes the reader on a tour through the building blocks of intelligent network video – from imaging to network cameras and video encoders, through the IT technologies of network and storage and into video management, analytics, and system design.

Download or read book Intelligent Video Surveillance written by António J. R. Neves and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of Intelligent video surveillance systems is to efficiently extract useful information from a considerable number of videos collected by surveillance cameras by automatically detecting, tracking and recognizing objects of interest, and understanding and analyzing their activities. Video surveillance has a huge amount of applications, from public to private places. These applications require monitoring indoor and outdoor scenes. Nowadays, there are a considerable number of digital surveillance cameras collecting a huge amount of data on a daily basis. Researchers are urged to develop intelligent systems to efficiently extract and visualize useful information from this big data source. The exponential effort on the development of new algorithms and systems for video surveillance is confirmed by the amount of effort invested in projects and companies, the creation on new startups worldwide and, not less important, in the quantity and quality of the manuscripts published in a considerable number of journals and conferences worldwide. This book is an outcome of research done by several researchers who have highly contributed to the field of Video Surveillance. The main goal is to present recent advances in this important topic for the Image Processing community.

Download or read book Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems written by Maheshkumar H Kolekar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will provide an overview of techniques for visual monitoring including video surveillance and human activity understanding. It will present the basic techniques of processing video from static cameras, starting with object detection and tracking. The author will introduce further video analytic modules including face detection, trajectory analysis and object classification. Examining system design and specific problems in visual surveillance, such as the use of multiple cameras and moving cameras, the author will elaborate on privacy issues focusing on approaches where automatic processing can help protect privacy.

Download or read book Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems written by Jean-Yves Dufour and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belonging to the wider academic field of computer vision, video analytics has aroused a phenomenal surge of interest since the current millennium. Video analytics is intended to solve the problem of the incapability of exploiting video streams in real time for the purpose of detection or anticipation. It involves analyzing the videos using algorithms that detect and track objects of interest over time and that indicate the presence of events or suspect behavior involving these objects. The aims of this book are to highlight the operational attempts of video analytics, to identify possible driving forces behind potential evolutions in years to come, and above all to present the state of the art and the technological hurdles which have yet to be overcome. The need for video surveillance is introduced through two major applications (the security of rail transportation systems and a posteriori investigation). The characteristics of the videos considered are presented through the cameras which enable capture and the compression methods which allow us to transport and store them. Technical topics are then discussed – the analysis of objects of interest (detection, tracking and recognition), “high-level” video analysis, which aims to give a semantic interpretation of the observed scene (events, behaviors, types of content). The book concludes with the problem of performance evaluation.

Download or read book Video Image Detection Systems Installation Performance Criteria written by Daniel T. Gottuk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer processing and image analysis technologies have improved substantially over the course of the past decade. This rapidly advancing technology along with the emphasis on video surveillance since 911 has propelled the development of effective video image detection (VID) systems for ?re. Fire protection system designers initially employed these VID systems for use in large facilities, outdoor locations and tunnels. However, video-based detection is being used for a broadening range of applications [e. g. , 1]. For example, these systems are c- rently installed in electrical power plants, paper mills, document storage facilities, historic municipal buildings, nuclear research facilities, automotive plants, wa- house/distribution centers, and onshore and offshore oil platforms. The 2007 edition of NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm Code [2], recognized the use of VID systems for ?ame and smoke detection. Although recognized, there is limited prescriptive installation and use requirements and there is a general desire by many for the development of performance criteria that ultimately could be utilized for the design of systems or the creation of standards. Since the underlying VID technology and development of standard and network-based camera systems are in a period of fairly rapid advancement [3–5], it is not possible to de?ne a comprehensive set of stand-alone prescriptive requirements. The performance of VID systems depends on both the video hardware and the software algorithms; there is no basic underlying principle, such as there is for ionization or pho- electric detection for smoke detectors. Consequently, performance-based inst- lation and operation requirements are needed.

Download or read book Digital Video Surveillance and Security written by Anthony C. Caputo and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of digital surveillance technology is rapidly growing as it becomes significantly cheaper for live and remote monitoring. The second edition of Digital Video Surveillance and Security provides the most current and complete reference for security professionals and consultants as they plan, design, and implement surveillance systems to secure their places of business. By providing the necessary explanations of terms, concepts, and technological capabilities, this revised edition addresses the newest technologies and solutions available on the market today. With clear descriptions and detailed illustrations, Digital Video Surveillance and Security is the only book that shows the need for an overall understanding of the digital video surveillance (DVS) ecosystem. Highly visual with easy-to-read diagrams, schematics, tables, troubleshooting charts, and graphs Includes design and implementation case studies and best practices Uses vendor-neutral comparisons of the latest camera equipment and recording options

Download or read book Applied Video Processing in Surveillance and Monitoring Systems written by Dey, Nilanjan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video monitoring has become a vital aspect within the global society as it helps prevent crime, promote safety, and track daily activities such as traffic. As technology in the area continues to improve, it is necessary to evaluate how video is being processed to improve the quality of images. Applied Video Processing in Surveillance and Monitoring Systems investigates emergent techniques in video and image processing by evaluating such topics as segmentation, noise elimination, encryption, and classification. Featuring real-time applications, empirical research, and vital frameworks within the field, this publication is a critical reference source for researchers, professionals, engineers, academicians, advanced-level students, and technology developers.

Download or read book Wide Area Surveillance written by Vijayan K. Asari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes a system for visual surveillance using intelligent cameras. The camera uses robust techniques for detecting and tracking moving objects. The real time capture of the objects is then stored in the database. The tracking data stored in the database is analysed to study the camera view, detect and track objects, and study object behavior. These set of models provide a robust framework for coordinating the tracking of objects between overlapping and non-overlapping cameras, and recording the activity of objects detected by the system.

Download or read book Intelligent Video Surveillance written by Yunqian Ma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the streets of London to subway stations in New York City, hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras ubiquitously collect hundreds of thousands of videos, often running 24/7. How can such vast volumes of video data be stored, analyzed, indexed, and searched? How can advanced video analysis and systems autonomously recognize people and