Method and system for identifying a video camera of a video surveillance environment

A server for identifying at least one video camera of a video surveillance environment, the server in communication with a plurality of video cameras, the server comprising:

• at least one processing unit;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer-readable memory having stored thereon program instructions executable by the at least one processing unit for:
• obtaining, at the server, a plurality of video streams of the plurality of video cameras, at least one video camera of the plurality of video cameras capturing a time-varying visual identifier outputted by the mobile device;
• processing, at the server, the plurality of video streams to detect the time-varying visual identifier outputted by the mobile device in at least one video stream of the plurality of video streams based on searching for the time-varying visual identifier in the plurality of video streams, wherein the time-varying visual identifier is unique to the mobile device such that the time-varying visual identifier is different from at least another time-varying visual identifier of another mobile device in the video surveillance environment to allow the server to identify the mobile device outputting the time-varying visual identifier;
• identifying, at the server, the at least one video camera capturing the time-varying visual identifier outputted by the mobile device from the at least one video stream having the visual identifier detected therein;
• and
• transmitting, by the server, camera identification information of the at least one video camera capturing the time-varying visual identifier to the mobile device.

A server in communication with a plurality of video cameras, the server comprising:

• at least one processing unit;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer-readable memory having stored thereon program instructions executable by the at least one processing unit for:
• obtaining, at the server, a plurality of video streams of the plurality of video cameras, at least one video camera of the plurality of video cameras capturing a time-varying visual identifier outputted by a mobile device;
• processing, at the server, the plurality of video streams to detect the time-varying visual identifier outputted by the mobile device in at least one video stream of the plurality of video streams based on searching for the time-varying visual identifier in the plurality of video streams, wherein the time-varying visual identifier is unique to the mobile device to allow the server to identify the mobile device outputting the time-varying visual identifier;
• identifying, at the server, the at least one video camera capturing the time-varying visual identifier outputted by the mobile device from the at least one video stream having the visual identifier detected therein;
• storing an indication of the at least one video camera capturing the visual identifier in the computer-readable memory or in at least one storage device.