3rd International ICST Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications

Research Article

Multi-camera indoor video processing for context awareness

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2007.1743,
        author={L. Marcenaro and I. Magliano and A. Beoldo and M. Valla and C.S. Regazzoni},
        title={Multi-camera indoor video processing for context awareness},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications},
        proceedings_a={MOBIMEDIA},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={ambient intelligence context aware applications video surveillance video processing},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2007.1743}
    }
    
  • L. Marcenaro
    I. Magliano
    A. Beoldo
    M. Valla
    C.S. Regazzoni
    Year: 2010
    Multi-camera indoor video processing for context awareness
    MOBIMEDIA
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2007.1743
L. Marcenaro1,*, I. Magliano2,*, A. Beoldo2,*, M. Valla3,*, C.S. Regazzoni2,*
  • 1: TechnoAware srl Genova, Italy
  • 2: DIBE University of Genoa Genova, Italy
  • 3: Telecom Italia Torino, Italy
*Contact email: lucio.marcenaro@taw.it, ingrid@dibe.unige.it, beoldo@dibe.unige.it, massimo.valla@telecomitalia.it, carlo@dibe.unige.it

Abstract

In this paper a system is presented able to acquire images from multiple indoor network cameras and extract contextual information about persons detected within the considered environment. Distributed system architecture allows one to process images from several cameras on a network of PCs. Objects tracking and posture classification techniques are used in order to extract contextual information from video. These information are stored in a remote database that is accessed from an higher level application that is able to interact with users' mobile phones for delivering context-based-services. In particular, proposed scene understanding techniques have been used for implementing an automatic terminal silencing service in case of a meeting and a sos-call in case of a falling person.