User assisted customization of automated video surveillance systems
AssigneeActivEye, Inc.
InventorMi-Suen Lee
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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.
Claims26
A video surveillance system comprising:
- a plurality of function modules, including at least one people-detection module, at least one object-detection module and at least one vehicle-detection module,
- 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 including a plurality of people-image characterizations for the people-detection module, a plurality of object-image characterizations for the object-detection module and a plurality of vehicle-image characterizations for the vehicle-detection module,
- a selector that is configured to allow a user of the video surveillance system to select a characterization from the plurality of scene characterizations, and
- a configuration module that is configured to:
- determine whether the selected characterization is a people-image characterization, an object-image characterization or a vehicle-image characterization;
- determine the one or more parameters based on the selected characterization, and
- communicate the one or more determined parameters to a corresponding function module according to the determined type of the selected characterization, to control the module to provide the corresponding functional effect.
A method to determine one or more parameters of at least one of a plurality of function modules including at least one people-detection module, at least one object-detection module and at least one vehicle-detection module in a surveillance system, comprising:
- providing a plurality of scene characterizations including a plurality of people-image characterizations for the people-detection module, a plurality of object-image characterizations for the object-detection module and a plurality of vehicle-image characterizations for the vehicle-detection module to a user,
- receiving a selected characterization by the user,
- determine whether the selected characterization is people-image characterization, an object-image characterization or a vehicle-image characterization;
- determining the one or more parameters based on the selected characterization,
- communicating the one or more determined parameters to a corresponding function module according to the determined type of the selected characterization, and
- causing the corresponding module to apply the one or more parameters to provide a corresponding functional effect based on the one or more parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.