VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND MONITORING FOR SOCIAL SECURITY

A Project Proposal Submitted to SUN Micro Systems

Team: B. RAJA MUKESH KRISHNA G. VIJAYARAJ M. SIVABALAN E.S. RAGHUNANDAN

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF C. KARTHIKEYAN

TIFAC-CORE Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council Centre of Relevance and Excellence

Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA) University Thanjavur-613402

VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND MONITORING FOR SOCIAL SECURITY OBJECTIVE: Our brain processes and understands what our eye sees. This text forays into this amazing thing of nature through image processing. In this idea we have used algorithms to subtract background from an image captured by a camera and have processed the resultant information and have used it for our application. This project will be implemented using JAVA in Solaris Environment .Video cameras are used to capture motion and using various methods; the constant background is subtracted and the temperature, various other variants are stabilized and the results are used in our applications namely 1) Traffic Management 2) Security 3) Military surveillance GOAL: Presently image of interest which is in motion is obtained by subtracting the background which is stationary. This stationary background is available beforehand for background subtraction. This subtracted image of moving object is intensified using pixel augmentation methods. We are using this technology further to take out numbers on the number plate of vehicles and converting this number in image format into integer format that is easily recognizable. This technologys scope is further broadened to foray into the horizon of surveillance and security as seen in applications.

The figure clearly explains what we are proposing to do. The camera captures the image of the moving vehicle and then separates this moving object alone from the stationary background using background subtraction techniques currently available. Current technologies use this image of the moving vehicle to detect an traffic violation etc but what we are proposing is ,the moving object is further split into pixels and the pixels are grouped to recognize the number on the number plate. This is done by similar pattern identification where the numbers are saved in the system and pixel groupings identical to a number are extracted, magnification not withholding. For this an algorithm is used which separates numbers if they do exist. Then this number in image format is converted into a integer format. For e.g. an image of the number 172 is converted into integer format 172 which is easily recognizable by other devices. This method is more failsafe than other methods since it reduces the drawbacks of earlier methods like creation of labeled template object database. Another major drawback in the current image processing technologies, suffers in classification of objects. In our method the complex process of object classification is not done. Rather we just recognize a moving object and then processed further. This method is used in the following applications in the following ways.

Note: The unit comprising the camera and the processing devices together is called Image processing embedded unit and is referred as IPEU throughout the text.

APPLICTATION:

1.) Traffic Management:

What we have proposed here is, the IPEU is placed at various strategic positions. All these kits are interconnected and each IPEU has a wi-fi region surrounding it. All police vehicles have a LCD monitor and a mobile technology just like laptops to get connected to the wi-fi, in whichever region the police vehicle is. If a vehicle passes the first IPEU along a road, the IPEU passes the vehicles number which is calculated as explained above, to the next IPEU which based on the distance between the two IPEU and the time the vehicle took to travel the distance calculates the speed of the vehicle. If the speed of the vehicle is more than the speed limit associated with that IPEU, the IPEU transmits the vehicles number to all the police vehicles in its wi-fi along with the region of offence. The feed about the vehicle is constantly sourced to the police vehicles since they are interconnected. This technology can be further expanded to detect hit and run cases, also the potential traffic disasters; thus saves innumerable lives.

2.) Security:

The IPEU has another major application in the field of security. All it requires is just a change of software. If for example a vehicle carrying explosives is placed in a parking lot. The IPEU placed in the parking lot has a timer which can be set and if any vehicle once passing the IPEU doesnt cross it again within the stipulated time the IPEU sends a distress call to a police station thus preventing a potential terrorist attack. This is done based on the number detection. Since the IPEU gets the number of any vehicle passing it, it can check whether the same number has passed it again within the stipulated time limit.

3.) Military Surveillance:

The IPEU can be used in high altitude regions were the regular army cant be placed. The IPEU can be programmed to detect any changes from a normal static background which is done as explained above. If a terrorist or anyone is spotted, the IPEU alerts the army centre. The centre can then view the recorded video and act accordingly.

The IPEU which has our algorithm executed using java program in Solaris environment as its brain can be used in many other applications and has boundless scope constraints not with-holding. Some applications include fire detection.

CONCLUSION:

Any technology is useless without actually touching human lives. The IPEU can be used to save millions of lives from terrorist attacks, traffic accidents and the lives of military personnel. Thus IPEU is a boon to the present turbulent times taking image processing to all new plane.