A Framework for an Event Driven Video Surveillance System

In this paper we present an event driven surveillance system. The purpose of this system is to enable thorough exploration of surveillance events. The system uses a client-server web architecture as this provides scalability for further development of the system infrastructure. The system is designed to be accessed by surveillance operators who can review and comment on events generated by our event detection processing modules. The presentation interface is based around a cross between Gmail and YouTube, as we believe these interfaces to be intuitive for ordinary computer operators. Our motivation is to fully utilize the events archived in our database and to further refine the relevant events. We do not just focus on event detection, but are working towards the optimization of event detection. To the best of our knowledge this system provides a novel approach to the technological surveillance paradigm.