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Title: Video motion detection for physical security applications

Abstract

Physical security specialists have been attracted to the concept of video motion detection for several years. Claimed potential advantages included additional benefit from existing video surveillance systems, automatic detection, improved performance compared to human observers, and cost effectiveness. In recent years significant advances in image processing dedicated hardware and image analysis algorithms and software have accelerated the successful application of video motion detection systems to a variety of physical security applications. Currently Sandia is developing several advanced systems that employ image processing techniques for a broader set of safeguards and security applications. TCATS (Target Cueing and Tracking System) uses a set of powerful, flexible, modular algorithms and software to alarm on purposeful target motion. Custom TCATS hardware optimized for perimeter security applications is currently being evaluated with video input. VISDTA (Video Imaging System for Detection, Tracking, and Assessment) uses some of the same TCATS algorithms and operates with a thermal imager input. In the scan mode, VISDTA detects changes in a scene from the previous image at a given scan point; in the stare mode, VISDTA detects purposeful motion similar to TCATS.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/DP
OSTI Identifier:
6518037
Report Number(s):
SAND-90-1733C; CONF-901101-45
ON: DE91002421
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DP00789
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: American Nuclear Society winter meeting, Washington, DC (USA), 11-15 Nov 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; MOTION DETECTION SYSTEMS; DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE TESTING; SECURITY; USES; VIDICONS; ALARM SYSTEMS; CAMERA TUBES; IMAGE TUBES; PROCESSING; TESTING; 420200* - Engineering- Facilities, Equipment, & Techniques

Citation Formats

Matter, J C. Video motion detection for physical security applications. United States: N. p., 1990. Web.
Matter, J C. Video motion detection for physical security applications. United States.
Matter, J C. 1990. "Video motion detection for physical security applications". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6518037.
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