Demonstration plan: Visual and Acoustical Surveillance and Monitoring, University of Maryland

Year 1 Demonstrations

• Site model based wide-area detection of people entering and leaving the door of the building.
• Narrow-area determination of whether these people are carrying objects, and whether the objects are briefcase-like or bag-like.
• Tracking of these people towards cars parked in the parking lot.
• Detection of cars entering the parking lot, and detection of people exiting the cars after they have stopped.

Year 2 Demonstrations

• Site model based image stabilization of color video sequences, and comparison with traditional stabilization algorithms based on generic scene structure assumptions.
• Site model based detection of moving vehicles and people, and comparison with traditional pixel-based algorithms that rely exclusively on pixelwise geometric analysis.
• Recognition of suspicious behavior of a person and a vehicle, including a person placing an object under a vehicle and a person trying to break into a vehicle; recognizing the distinction between one person cooperatively handing an object to another, and one person forcibly taking an object away from another.