Effects of presenting geographic context on tracking activity between cameras

A common video surveillance task is to keep track of people moving around the space being monitored. It is often difficult to track activity between cameras because locations such as hallways in office buildings can look quite similar and do not indicate the spatial proximity of the cameras. We describe a spatial video player that orients nearby video feeds with the field of view of the main playing video to aid in tracking between cameras. This is compared with the traditional bank of cameras with and without interactive maps for identifying and selecting cameras. We additionally explore the value of static and rotating maps for tracking activity between cameras. The study results show that both the spatial video player and the map improve user performance when compared to the camera-bank interface. Also, subjects change cameras more often with the spatial player than either the camera bank or the map, when available. Author Keywords Video surveillance, activity tracking, multiple vi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Andreas Girgensohn, Frank M. Shipman III, Thea Turner, Lynn Wilcox
• Keywords: Change Cameras, CHI 2007, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Video Surveillance, Spatial Video Player