US 2004/0155958 A1 · User assisted customization of automated video surveillance systems

Abstract

A surveillance system allows a user to characterize the user's environment and/or the user's surveillance application, via a selection from among a variety of predefined environments and/or applications. Preferably, the selection is from among a variety of scene configurations, such as the expected number and type of targets in a typical scene, the lighting conditions of the scene, and so on. The selected environments and/or applications effect a determination of the parameters that are used in the various algorithms and processing modules within the surveillance system. Because the selection is preferably from a variety of common scene configurations, no technical skills are required to effect an optimization of the performance of the surveillance system for a particular environment.

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Dependent claims

A video surveillance system comprising:

a plurality of function modules,
each module of the plurality of function modules providing a functional effect that is dependent upon one or more parameters,
a database that includes a plurality of scene characterizations,
a selector that is configured to allow a user of the video surveillance system to select one or more select characterizations from the plurality of scene characterizations, and
a configuration module that is configured to determine the one or more parameters of at least one of the plurality of modules, based on the one or more select characterizations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

User assisted customization of automated video surveillance systems

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