Author(s): S. Mahipal; P. Sreenivasa Moorthy
Video surveillance systems have long been in use to monitor security sensitive areas. The making of video surveillance systems “smart” requires fast, reliable and robust algorithms for moving object detection, classification, tracking and activity analysis. Moving object detection is the basic step for further analysis of video. It handles segmentation of moving objects from stationary background objects. Object classification step categorizes detected objects into predefined classes such as human, vehicle, animal, clutter, etc. It is necessary to distinguish objects from each other in order to track and analyse their actions reliably.