Title : 
Commentary Paper 1 on "Robust Unattended and Stolen Object Detection by Fusing Simple Algorithms"
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Univ. of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The paper presents methods for the detection of abandoned or stolen objects in a scene monitored by a video camera. Three weak detectors are combined to improve the overall performance of the system.
         
        
            Keywords : 
object detection; video cameras; video surveillance; stolen object detection; surveillance community; unattended object detection; video camera; Cameras; Detectors; Histograms; Layout; Monitoring; Object detection; Robustness; Surveillance; Testing; Videoconference;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2008. AVSS '08. IEEE Fifth International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Santa Fe, NM
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-0-7695-3341-4
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-0-7695-3422-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/AVSS.2008.59