TR2007-008

Surveillance System with Mega-Pixel Scalable Transcoder
Citation: Hata, T.; Kuwahara, N.; Schwenke, D.; Vetro, A., "Surveillance System with Mega-Pixel Scalable Transcoder", SPIE Conference Visual Communicaitons and Image Processing, Vol. 6508, January 2007 (SPIE Proceedings)
Date:January 2007
MERL Contacts:Derek Schwenke, Anthony Vetro

This paper presents a video surveillance system that displays mega-pixel streams effectively, while traansmitting and processing the streams efficiently with limited resources such as bandwidth, computing power and display resolution. The proposed system stores high-resolution and high-quality video data and associated object metadata, which includes ROI (Region-of-Interest)information. To satisfy such resource constraints and display important parts in detail without missing the overall scene context, the stored images are efficiently transcoded in the compressed-domain based on the ROI information, display resolution and available bandwidth. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed system in terms of objective measures and subjective evaluation.

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