Method and system for vandalism and/or loitering detection using video
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsMatthew Adam Shreve, Yao Rong Wang, Robert P. Loce, Michael R. Furst
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Abstract
This disclosure provides a method and system to detect a predefined activity, e.g., vandalism, loitering, trespass, etc., associated with a parked vehicle. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method includes capturing video of a parking area and processing the video to detect vandalism and/or loitering with respect to a region of interest associated with the parked vehicle.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method of detecting a predefined human activity in a region of interest (ROI) associated with a parked vehicle registered with a vehicle monitoring service, the method comprising:
- the vehicle monitoring service capturing a video stream of a parking area including the parked vehicle registered with the vehicle monitoring service;
- the vehicle monitoring service identifying the parked vehicle in the video stream;
- the vehicle monitoring service processing the video to detect the predefined human activity with respect to the region of interest (ROI) associated with the parked vehicle registered with the vehicle monitoring service, the predefined human activity including a person detected within the ROI and behaving in a predefined manner;
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- the vehicle monitoring service communicating an alert to a user associated with the parked vehicle if the predefined human activity is detected.
A parked vehicle monitoring system for detecting a predefined human activity in a region of interest (ROI) associated with a parked vehicle registered with the vehicle monitoring system;
- one or more image capturing devices configured to capture a video stream of a parking area including the parked vehicle registered with the vehicle monitoring system;
- an image processing module configured to process the video to detect the predefined human activity with respect to the ROI associated with the parked vehicle registered with the vehicle monitoring system, the predefined human activity including a person detected within the ROI and behaving in a predetermined manner;
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- a communications module configured to communicate an alert to a user associated with the parked vehicle.
A computer-implemented method of detecting one or more of vandalism and loitering activity in a region of interest (ROI) associated with a parked vehicle registered with a vehicle monitoring service, the method comprising:
- the vehicle monitoring service capturing a video stream of a parking area including the parked vehicle registered with the vehicle monitoring service;
- the vehicle monitoring service identifying the parked vehicle in the video stream;
- the vehicle monitoring service processing the video to detect one or more of vandalism and loitering with respect to the ROI associated with the parked vehicle registered with the vehicle monitoring service;
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- the vehicle monitoring service communicating an alert to a user associated with the parked vehicle if one or more of vandalism and loitering is detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.