Model of surveillance system based on sound tracking

Research in the audio and video surveillance is gaining more popularity due to its wide-spread applications as well as social impact. There have been considerable efforts which are focused on developing various algorithms and models for surveillance systems. Recently, the attention in audio and video surveillance has turned towards to design autonomous detection system. In this paper a surveillance system based on sound source localization by a microphone array is presented. The design of microphone array has an important issue in the accuracy of source localization. For the surveillance application, beamforming algorithms are implemented to increase the tracking and detection performance. The real-time capabilities of an automated surveillance system are analyzed, providing a performance analysis of the localization system under different acoustic conditions. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016