Method and system for vandalism and/or loitering detection using video
AssigneeConduent Business Services, LLC
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.
Claims17
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 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 associated with vandalism and vandalism is detected by the vehicle monitoring service performing a method comprising:
- detecting the parked vehicle
- defining the ROI to include a region surrounding the detected parked vehicle
- detecting a person within the ROI;
- and
- determining the person tracked within the ROI has contacted the parked vehicle if an image representation of the person tracked intersects with an image representation of the parked vehicle by a threshold;
- and
- 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 associated with vandalism and vandalism is detected by the vehicle monitoring service performing a method comprising:
- detecting the parked vehicle;
- defining the ROI to include a region surrounding the detected parked vehicle;
- detecting a person within the ROI;
- tracking the person detected within the ROI;
- and
- determining the person tracked within the ROI has contacted the parked vehicle if an image representation of the person tracked intersects with an image representation of the parked vehicle by a threshold;
- and
- a communications module configured to communicate an alert to a user associated with the parked vehicle.
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 associated with vandalism and vandalism is detected by the vehicle monitoring service performing a method comprising:
- detecting the parked vehicle;
- defining the ROI to include a pixel region surrounding the detected parked vehicle;
- detecting a person within the ROI
- tracking one or more pixel positions of the person detected within the ROI;
- and
- determining the person tracked with the ROI has contacted the parked vehicle if one or more pixel representations of the person are closer than a threshold distance from a reference line associated with the parked vehicle;
- and
- 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 associated with vandalism and vandalism is detected by the vehicle monitoring service performing a method of comprising:
- detecting the parked vehicle;
- defining the ROI to include a pixel region surrounding the detected parked vehicle;
- detecting a person within the ROI;
- tracking one or more pixel positions of the person detected within the ROI;
- and
- determining the person tracked with the ROI has contacted the parked vehicle if one or more pixel representations of the person are closer than a threshold distance from a reference line associated with the parked vehicle;
- and
- a communications module configured to communicate an alert to a user associated with the parked vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.