ACE Surveillance (NRC-IIT Video Recognition Systems)/title> <link rel="StyleSheet" href="/vrs-main.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <center> <table width="800" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="7" bordercolor="#0000FF"> <tr> <td width="800" > <p align="right"><font size="1"><img border="0" src="/images/nrc-iit-logo.gif" width="152" height="69" align="left"></font> <b><font size="6" color="#000080"> ACE Surveillance</font></b></p> <p align="right"><font size="2"> <a href="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/">NRC-CNRC</a> | <a href="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca">IIT-ITI</a> | <a href="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/r-d/cv-vi_e.html">Computational Video Group</a> | <a href="/">Video Recognition Systems</a><br> <a href="index.html"> Introduction </a>| Demonstrations | <a href="download.html"> Download</a> | <a href="feedback.html">Feedback </a>| <a href="http://ace.vrs.iit.nrc.ca/ces/"> My ACE</a> <br> </font> <img height="1" alt src="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/sidenav_line.gif" width="100%"> <h3><b>Demonstrations</b> </h3> <p> <img border="0" src="pics/Ex-of-use/Back-at-desk-s.jpg" width="371" height="281" align="right"><b> As a pilot project with the mandate to enhance the security within the NRC premises, NRC has installed ACE Surveillance technology with several of its surveillance cameras.</b> <blockquote> <p>The ACE Surveillance software provides NRC commissioners a complete knowledge of all activities happening at the monitored premises. Either at the desk or away from it a commissioner is able - within minutes - to get a complete description of the passed events and to retrieve the best possible capture of the event or person of a particular interest.</p> </blockquote> <p> <b> Technical details: </b><u>Installed: </u> January 11, 2007<br> <br> <u>Features</u>: <ul> <li>Runs non-stop 24/7 on a existing equipment: <ul> <li><font size="2">Two ADT- installed analog RCA surveillance cameras that monitor the entries to the building </font></li> <li> <font size="2"> Commissioner's desk-top computer (1GHz Processor, 1 Gb RAM, extra 1Gb of hard-drive - for optional local copy of CES-es)</font> </li> </ul> </ul> <font size="2"><u>Camera locations:</u> two building entrances without receptionists (one of which is the delivery entrance)<u><br> Enabled:</u> </font> <ul> <li> <font size="2"> An alarm sound is produced when someone new arrives. </font> </li> <li> <font size="2"> The last captured snapshot of the person/object is shown, time-stamped - to ensure the officer that nothing happened since then and now</font> </li> <li> <font size="2"> Real-time back-rewind - to enable the officer who was a way from the desk to see what happened while he was away. </font> </li> <li> <font size="2">Remote CES </font> (Critical Evidence Snapshots) summarization and <font size="2">browsing using the ACE-Browser - accessible remotely by any commissioner with the password and login information.</font> </li> </ul> <h3> </h3> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> Premises </td> <td width="50%" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"><font size="2">There are many premises that are important to monitor. Most of all, this includes entrances/exits to/from the building where no human personnel present and where an intruder or thief can pass-by unnoticed. Two of such entrance spaces in one of the NRC buildings are shown here. </font> <p><font size="2"> <img border="0" src="pics/Ex-of-use/ADT-cam2.jpg" width="356" height="268"></font></td> <td width="50%" valign="top"><font size="2"> In order to tighten the security in such places, NRC has purchased (from ADT security) and installed several surveillance cameras (in December 2006)<br> <img border="0" src="pics/Ex-of-use/ADT-cam1.jpg" width="257" height="342"></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> </td> <td width="50%" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <u>Normal Monitoring (without ACE):<br> </u><font size="2"><br> Every surveillance camera comes with a monitor, at which a dedicated human personnel has to look at all times in order to aware of everything happening in the observed premises.<br> <img border="0" src="pics/Ex-of-use/ADT-monitors-s.jpg" width="377" height="282"></font></td> <td width="50%" valign="top"><br> <font size="2"><br> But what happens, when the officer has to leave the desk or is not looking at the monitor ? Will intruders pass unnoticed? - NO, if you have ACE installed on your computer!<br> <img border="0" src="pics/Ex-of-use/ACE-easy-to-connect-s.jpg" width="378" height="283"></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <u><br> Monitoring with ACE:</u><br> In real-time mode - Watch closely when alarm sounds.</td> <td width="50%" valign="top"><br> <br> In archival mode - Zoom on a day, on hour, then point and click </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"><font size="2"><img border="0" src="pics/Ex-of-use/Away-from-desk-but-ACE-on-s.jpg" width="381" height="285"></font></td> <td width="50%" valign="top"><font size="2"><img border="0" src="pics/Ex-of-use/Back-to-desk-checking-what-happened-s.jpg" width="373" height="281"></font> </td> </table> <p> <b><u>Examples</u></b>: </p> <ul> <li> <a target="snapshots" href="pics/Ex-of-use/door1-mon-7am.png"> <b>On main entry: on a working day </b>(many people pass by)</a> </li> <li> <a target="snapshots" href="pics/Ex-of-use/door1-sat-7am.png"> <b> On main entry: on a week-end day </b>(not many people pass by and they should be known)</a> </li> <li> <a target="snapshots" href="pics/Ex-of-use/door0-mon-7am.png"><b>On delivery entry: a working day </b>(many people pass by)</a> </li> <li> <a target="snapshots" href="pics/Ex-of-use/door0-sat-7am.png"><b>On delivery entry: on a weekend. </b>Any passer-by is a suspect</a> </li> </ul> <iframe name="snapshots" SCROLLING=yes width="100%" height="500" align="center" src="pics/Ex-of-use/door1-mon-7am.png" Your browser doesn't support IFRAMEs.<br> </iframe> <font size="2"> <hr> <h2><b>Interactive ACE-browse demo: <img src="http://synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca/ico/new-rotating.gif" width="60" height="25"> (TBD) - </b> click <a href="http://ace.vrs.iit.nrc.ca/ces/ACE-browser.php?station=demo">here</a>.</h2> <p><b>See ACE-Surveillance in action: real-life CES summarizations obtained by ACE users on a variety of monitoring assignments. Easily browse over the detected events and objects by day and hour, see their annotations and selected best-shot captures (data courteously provided by our clients)</b></p> <blockquote> <p>Days viewed in this demo correspond to different real monitored assignments: difference is seen as a new station, camera and/or setup (e.g different angles of view, lighting conditions, camera image quality, complexity of observed events, number of of tracked objects, their velocities, shapes and sizes)</p> </blockquote> <hr> </font> <h3> Animated Gif: <b><br> Video recognition (detection and tracking) quality vs. quality of video images, at different times of the day. <br> </b> </h3> <ul> <li><a href="pics/aces06-08-04-17.00-24.00-fast-ani.gif">aces06-08-04-17.00-24.00-fast-ani.gif</a> (2.5Mb - 7 hours)</li> <li><a href="pics/aces-3rd-am-ani.gif">aces-3rd-am-ani.gif </a> (16Mb - 24 hours)</li> </ul> <blockquote> <p> <font size="2"><i>Output of the ACE: </i>The entire activity captured by the surveillance system over several hours (from the office window) is summarized into 2 minutes (600Kb) of annotated video comprised of Critical Evidence Snapshots (CES). </p> </blockquote> <hr> </font> <h2>Older demos <b>(January - May 2006):</b></h2> <p> <b>These are the results from several real-life monitoring tasks as obtained by the recognition module of the CES client. <u>Note the quality of the video image for different cameras and lighting conditions.</u></b> </p> <blockquote> <p>(Timestamp is shown at top right of the video image. Detected objects/actions are highlighted with coloured boxes. Blue box - the center of computed foreground. Red box - motion center. Green box - enclosing around the object)</p> </blockquote> <p> <b>1. Monitoring the premises in front of an office: </b> </p> <table border="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"> <u> Hours of operation</u>: 19 hours (16:45 - 10:00).<br> <br> Cam 1: USB web-cam. </td> <td width="50%"> # of extracted CES: 148<br> <br> <a href="pics/Feb22-office-5pm-10am.wmv">Summarization: wmv video (600Kb</a>), <a href="http://synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca/aces330/office/Feb22/cam1/CES/">CES</a> </td> </tr> </table> <p><b>2. Monitoring the premises in front of a house: </b> </p> <table border="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"> <u> Hours of operation</u>: 20 hours (22:10 - 18:09) and 20 hours next day (22:06 - 17:34)<br> <br> Cam 1: wireless CCTV cam + Video2USB converter.</td> <td width="50%"># of extracted CES: 177 and 222<br> <br> Summarization: <a href="pics/Feb16-p1.wmv">video part1 (900Kb)</a> and <a href="pics/Feb-17-home.wmv">video part2 (1.9Mb)</a>, <a href="http://synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca/aces330/home-station/Feb-16_22_10-20hours-from-basement-grey-600MHz/==Out/">annotated CES (6Kb each), </a><a href="http://synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca/aces330/home-station/Feb-16_22_10-20hours-from-basement-grey-600MHz/==640">original CES</a>.</td> </tr> </table> <p> <b>3. Three-cam monitoring around a house</b>: </p> <table border="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"><u> Hours of operation</u>: 15 hours (21:00 - 14:30)<br> <br> Cam 1 - overviews carport in the front of the house: USB web-cam (<a href="pics/20-night-entrance-webcam.avi">summary avi</a> - 74Kb)<br> <br> Cam 2 - overviews carport in the front of the house: wireless CCTV cam+ Video2USB converter (<a href="pics/20-night-entrance-cctv.avi">summary avi</a> - 800Kb)<br> <br> Cam 3 - overviews the road in the back of the house: USB web-cam (<a href="pics/20-night-road-webcam.avi">summary avi</a> - 4Mb)</td> <td width="50%" valign="top"> # of extracted CES: X, Y, Z <p><a href="http://synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca/acese-data/home-19_22:00-20_14:30.php"><br> Enter here to interactive security monitoring</a>. <a href="http://synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca/~acese-admin/home-19_22:00-20_14:30.php"> <br> </a>Password: "c.e.s." (lowercase). <br> Press ">>" when you are there.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> <br> <b>4. Example of automated surveillance annotation: </b> </p> <table border="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"><u> Hours of operation</u>: 10 hours (22:00 - 8:00).<br> <br> Cam 1: USB web-cam. </td> <td width="50%"># of extracted CES: 23 <p><a href="http://synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca/ACE-surveillance/Proj1/night-vlog/summary.html"> Enter here. </a>Password: "c.e.s." (lowercase). </td> </tr> </table> <p> <img alt src="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/sidenav_line.gif" width="100%" height="1"> <p align="right"><img alt="National Research Council - Conseil national de recherches Canada" src="/images/nrc_logo_e.gif" border="0" width="132" height="75" align="left"> <a href="http://www.perceptual-vision.com">www.perceptual-vision.com</a> (http://<a href="http://synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca">ace.vrs.iit.nrc.ca</a>)<br> Last updated: <i>2006-XII-05</i><br> Copyright (R), <a href="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca">IIT-ITI</a>, <a href="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/">NRC-CNRC</a><br> Project Leader:  <a href="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/personnel/gorodnichy_dmitry_e.html">Dmitry Gorodnichy</a> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </body>