IN3405- Bachelor of Science Project Intelligent Multi-camera Video Surveillance Final report

Video surveillance is found in different areas, such as public buildings, metro stations and miliary areas. These systems have become increasingly cost efficient, allowing for larger systems as well. Traditionally multiple security cameras are positioned throughout the area, and linked to monitor screens. These screens are monitored by security pesonnel. Unfortunately humans suffer from certain flaws when it comes to surveillance. For example, humans may lose focus when nothing happens for a long period of time. Though computers may no be as good at computer vision and reasoning as human operators, they provide different advantages. For instance, computers are capable of working 24 hours a day, 7 hours a week. By using an automated intelligent multi-camera video surveillance system the security personnel could be supported in their work, allowing for less security flaws in moni-toring the area. For this Bachelor project the project group has developed such an automated intelligent multi-camera video surveillance system. In particular, the system was developed for monitoring the 'Netherlands Defence Academy ' (NLDA) area of the 'Koninklijk Instituut voor de Marine ' (KIM). In order to develop the system, a scientific approach was used in combination with an incremen