Embedded Video Surveillance System Based on H.264

Embedded video surveillance has become a large market as the number of installed cameras around us can show. At the same time, video compression technique has been rapidly developed in recent years. As a new generation of video coding compression standard, extensive attention has been given to H.264/AVC. On the other hand, because of good cost-effective and low-power consumption, DSP is widely used in the fields of embedded system and multimedia processing. There are needs for embedded video surveillance that can make use of the video compression technique in more efficiency security systems. In this paper, a scheme of design and implementation about video surveillance system based on H.264/AVC is designed and described. It is built on ADSP-BF561, with a wide range of peripheral interface, to achieve several functions, such as video compression, data stream control, network transmission, PTZ and so on. The experimental results indicate that the stability and other expected features of system, including Real-time surveillance video encoding, can be ensured.