Cloud-based video surveillance management system

A network-based video surveillance management system comprising:

• a gateway configured to obtain video content and metadata relating to the video content from a plurality of network devices including first and second network devices that maintain at least some metadata for overlapping geographic areas;
• a metadata processing module communicatively coupled to the gateway and configured to filter the metadata according to one or more criteria to obtain a filtered set of metadata, wherein the metadata processing module configured to filter the metadata is configured to:
• identify a metadata element obtained from the first network device that corresponds to the area for which the first network device and the second network device maintain the at least some metadata elements;
• evaluate a quality of the identified metadata according to the one or more criteria;
• classify at least a portion of the metadata having as noise metadata when the evaluated quality is below a threshold of the one or more criteria;
• determine whether a metadata element corresponding to the metadata element having at least a portion classified as noise has been obtained from the second network device;
• identify the metadata element obtained from the first network device as noise if the metadata element corresponding to the metadata element having at least a portion classified as noise has not been obtained from the second network device;
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• exclude from the filtered set any metadata element identified as noise to create a noise filtered set of metadata;
• a video processing module communicatively coupled to the gateway and the metadata processing module and configured to determine video frames that are each associated with the noise filtered set of metadata;
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• a cloud services interface communicatively coupled to the gateway, the metadata processing module and the video processing module, the cloud service interface configured to upload to a cloud computing service at least one of the video content associated with the noise filtered set of metadata or the noise filtered set of metadata.

A computer program product residing on a non-transitory processor-executable computer storage medium, the computer program product comprising processor-executable instructions configured to cause a processor of a computing system in a gateway between a plurality of network devices and a cloud computing service to:

• obtain video content and metadata relating to the video content from a plurality of network devices including first and second network devices that maintain at least some metadata for overlapping geographic areas;
• filter the metadata according to one or more criteria to obtain a filtered set of metadata, wherein the processor-executable instructions configured to cause the processor to filter the metadata comprise instruction configured to cause the processor to:
• identify a metadata element obtained from the first network device that corresponds to the area for which the first network device and the second network device maintain the at least some metadata elements;
• evaluate a quality of the identified metadata element according to the one or more criteria;
• classify at least a portion of the metadata as noise when the evaluated quality is below a threshold of the one or more criteria;
• determine whether a metadata element corresponding to the metadata element having at least a portion classified as noise has been obtained from the second network device;
• identify the metadata element obtained from the first network device as noise if the metadata element corresponding to the metadata element having at least a portion classified as noise has not been obtained from the second network device;
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• exclude from the filtered set any metadata element identified as noise to create a noise filtered set of metadata;
• determine video frames that are each associated with the noise filtered set of metadata;
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• upload to a cloud computing service the noise filtered set of metadata or the video frames associated with the noise filtered set of metadata.