VANAHEIM
Karl
Grammer
Video/Audio Networked surveillance system enhAncement through Human-cEntered adaptIve Monitoring
VANAHEIM
is a real time application for analyzing behavior streams from
surveillance cameras and suggest interesting, unusual scenes to an
operator. In order to accomplish this goal we tried to simulate human
attention processess and their relation to computer vision algorithms.
Attention stands as a fundamental capacity of our cognitive systems, for it enables us to effectively use
its limited resources in a flexible and dynamical way. Therefore, it is
not surprising that a considerable amount of research has focused on
that topic. However, most of this research has been mainly carried out
on visual attention by using static stimuli in highly controlled
experimental settings. Although this provided valuable insights
concerning the basic mechanisms underlying visual attention, very
little is known about visual attention in dynamic and social situations
with less simplified stimuli. Thus, conducting research using closer to
real-life situations as stimuli, would significantly contribute to a
more complete understanding of visual attention, while it would allow
looking into social attention more reliably. This, in turn, could
provide a better understanding of phenomena based on social attention
such as, social cognition, social learning and the like (click on the picture)
In
the Vanaheim project this approach was used to determine a baseline for
behavior occurring in specific settings and for control and reliability
scoring of computer vision algorithms.
Consortium overview
- Computer vision & audio processing researchers
- Multitel asbl (MULT), Belgium (Coordinator)
- Idiap Research Institute (IDIAP), Switzerland
- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), France
- Thales Communications France (TCF), France
- Surveillance system designer
- Thales Italia (THALIT), Italy
- Public transport operators (metros)
- Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT), Italy
- Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), France
- Behavior researchers
- University of Vienna (UNIVIE), Austria
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