Title: An integrated surveillance system using RFID and vision-tracking technologies

Authors: I-Cheng Chang, Jia-Hong Yang, Teng-Hsun Chang, Yu-Kai Kao

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, 97401 Hualien, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, 97401 Hualien, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, 97401 Hualien, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, 97401 Hualien, Taiwan

Abstract: This paper proposes a new surveillance system that combines the advantages of vision and RFID technologies. The system consists of two major parts: 1 a tracking system that finds the target|s position using RFID and vision methods, and then applies static and active cameras to obtain global information and local detailed features of the target; 2 a decision system that first recognises and records the events and then sends orders to other functions to commence further processing. A central data management is employed to allocate resources and assign target priority for the decision system. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed approach can work effectively for tracking the activities of invaders.

Keywords: surveillance systems; active cameras; RFID; radio frequency identification; vision tracking; decision system; data management; resource allocation; target priority; intruders; intruder tracking.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPT.2009.029275

International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, 2009 Vol.4 No.4, pp.257 - 268

Published online: 17 Nov 2009 *

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