Authors:
Nikolaos Zournis-Karouzos
1
;
Alexandra Koutsia
2
;
Kosmas Dimitropoulos
2
and
Nikos Grammalidis
2
Affiliations:
1
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
;
2
Informatics and Telematics Institute, CERTH, Greece
Keyword(s):
Motion detection, traffic monitoring, target tracking, background extraction and update, A-SMGCS.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Methodologies and Methods
;
Motion and Tracking
;
Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Real-Time Vision
;
Tracking of People and Surveillance
Abstract:
We propose a novel video sensor for real-time motion detection at specific user-defined regions of interest, designed primarily for traffic monitoring, surveillance and tracking applications. Specifically, the new sensor a) supports virtual detectors with a generalized (polygonal) shape, thus providing additional flexibility in the design of detector configurations, b) is based on fast implementations of recent state-of-the art background extraction and update techniques and c) constitutes a generic, inexpensive software solution, which can be used with any video camera. First experimental results confirm that the new video sensor meets the expectations in terms of real-time performance and demonstrates the additional functionalities, according to which it was designed. The final goal is to use this new sensor as an alternative, improved version of embedded motion detection video sensors (like Autoscope®).