Title
Event-driven Video Awareness Providing Physical Security
Abstract
The Video Event Awareness Workbench (VEAW) analyzes surveillance video from thousands of video cameras and automatically detects complex events in near-real-time-at pace with their input video streams. For events of interest to security personnel, VEAW generates and routes alerts and related video evidence to subscribing security personnel. Complex event processing in VEAW is driven by user-authored awareness specifications comprised of inter-connected spatio-temporal stream and statistical operators that consume and produce events described in VEAW's surveillance ontology. In this paper we introduce VEAW's event driven architecture and describe its solutions for automating video surveillance, including the orchestration of continuous and tasked video analysis algorithms (e.g., for entity tracking and identification), fusion of events from multiple sources in an installation-specific "world" model, and proactive information gathering to deal with missing or incomplete information (this is done by tasking video analysis algorithms and security personnel to provide it). We also discuss how VEAW deals with late arriving information (due to out-of-band video analysis tasks and overhead), as well as a related resource optimization aimed at minimizing computation costs. We illustrate the benefits of VEAW by illustrating its application on the automation of real-world security policies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/s11280-006-0015-4
World Wide Web
Keywords
Field
DocType
complex event processing,video surveillance,awareness
Event-driven architecture,Physical security,Computer science,Computer security,Complex event processing,Automation,Video tracking,Security information and event management,Security policy,Orchestration (computing)
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
1
1386-145X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.49
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos12554580.54
Donald Baker238077.88
Marian Nodine313816.50
Andrzej Cichoki450.49