Paper Title
Smart Surveillance System
Abstract
Smart video-surveillance systems are a powerful tool applied in varied scenarios with the aim of automating the
detection of different risk situations and helping human security officers to take appropriate decisions in order to enhance the
protection of assets. In this paper, we propose a complete expert system which focuses on the real-time detection of
potentially suspicious behaviour in various environments. Our video-surveillance methodology contributes several
innovative proposals that compose a robust application which is able to efficiently detect and track the trajectories of people
and to discover questionable actions in any desired environment. As a first step, our system applies an image segmentation to
locate the foreground objects in scene. In this case, the most effective background subtraction algorithms of the state of the
art are compared to find the most suitable for our expert video-surveillance application. After the segmentation stage, the
detected blobs may represent full or partial people bodies, thus, we have implemented a novel blob fusion technique to group
the partial blobs into the final human targets. Then, we contribute an innovative tracking algorithm which is not only based
on people trajectories as the most part of state-of-the-art methods, but also on people appearance in occlusion situations.
Finally, the resultant trajectories of people obtained in the tracking stage are processed by our smart video-surveillance
system for analyzing human behaviour and identifying potential abnormal situations such as loitering and jumping over
fences of private territories. Furthermore, the notifications given off by our application in the form of emails are evaluated on
a naturalistic private dataset, where it is evidenced that our smart video-surveillance system can effectively detect suspicious
behaviour with a low computational cost in any given environmental context. Human monitoring of surveillance video is a
very labour-intensive task. Detecting multiple activities in real-time video is difficult in manual analysis. Thus we have
proposed this intelligent video surveillance system in which the analytics software processes video flow images to
automatically detect objects and people and notify about the event of interest for security purposes. Our smart video
surveillance system also detects situations in video flow that represent a security threat and trigger an alarm. This smart
video surveillance system can be used in shopping centres, public places, banking institutions, companies, ATM machines,
private houses and hospitals as well. In our smart video surveillance system we propose a system which analyses activity in
the monitored space in real time and generates alarms by sending notifications to the authorities.
Keywords - Surveillance system, Detection, Tracking, Behaviour analysis, Notifications