Building Adaptive Camera Models for Video Surveillance

We address the limited automatic scanning functionality of standard PTZ camera systems. We present an adaptive, scene-specific model using standard PTZ camera hardware. The adaptive model is constructed automatically by detecting human activity in Motion History Images (MHIs) using an iterative candidacy-classification-reduction process. The target motion is quantified and employed in the construction of a global Activity Map, which in turn is used to direct or navigate the camera.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WACV
• Authors: James W. Davis, Alexander M. Morison, David D. Woods
• Keywords: PTZ Camera Hardware, PTZ Camera Systems, Standard Ptz Camera, WACV 2007