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Virtual Fence for a Surveillance System

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Advances in Neuro-Information Processing (ICONIP 2008)

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This paper presents a method for defining one or more virtual restricted zones within a surveillance area which is observed with stereo cameras. When an object enters a restricted zone, the system highlights the object shown in the monitoring screen or triggers other devices to produce a visual or auditory alarm. The proposed method works by extracting the foreground objects for both the left and the right images from their respective stereo cameras. Then it estimates the object’s position in terms of depth plane using image shifting and number of overlapping pixels. Finally, it determines whether there is a collision between objects and restricted zones in order to trigger an alarm where necessary. The algorithm has been tested with a series of stereo videos, in which samples of it are presented in this paper.

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  1. MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, 57000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Yen San Yong, Hock Woon Hon, Yasir Salih Osman, Ching Hau Chan, Siu Jing Then & Sheau Wei Chau

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  1. Network Design and Research Center, Kyushu Institute of Technology,, 680-4, Kawazu, Iizuka,, 820-8502, Fukuoka, Japan

    Mario Köppen

  2. Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 350 Queen Street, 10110, Auckland, New Zealand

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  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Robotics Laboratory, Auckland University of Technology, 38 Princes Street,, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand

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Yong, Y.S., Hon, H.W., Osman, Y.S., Chan, C.H., Then, S.J., Chau, S.W. (2009). Virtual Fence for a Surveillance System. In: Köppen, M., Kasabov, N., Coghill, G. (eds) Advances in Neuro-Information Processing. ICONIP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5507. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03040-6_99

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