System and method for identifying when a target characteristic of an object in an input image scene is deemed to render the object to be an object-of-interest

A system for identifying when one or more target characteristics of an object in an input image scene are deemed to render the object to be an object-of-interest, the system comprising:

• an input module for receiving in real time the image scene captured by an image capture device;
• a processor comprising plural processing modules for performing a shape analysis technique, wherein:
• a first processing module for scanning the image scene to identify the object;
• a second processing module for identifying one or more shapes of interest of the object;
• a third processing module comparing the one or more shapes of interest to one or more reference shapes;
• and
• a fourth processing module for classifying the object as having one or more target characteristics when one or more shapes of interest match the one or more reference shapes;
• wherein the processor is configured to:
• compare an interior area of an image curve of the classified object to an interior area of an image curve of the reference shape to generate a scale factor;
• and
• designate the classified object as an object-of-interest based on the scale factor;
• and
• a user interface configured to generate an output identifying the object as an object-of-interest or as a non-object-of-interest.