Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110134236 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STABILIZING LOCUS OF OBJECT, AND IMAGE MONITORING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for stabilizing a locus of an object detected from a continuously-captured image, and an image monitoring system are provided. The apparatus includes: a detection unit which detects first information about the locus provided at a first time, from the continuously-captured image; a storage unit which stores second information about the locus provided at at least one other time; a correction unit which corrects the first information based on the second information; and a display unit which applies the corrected first information to the object in the continuously-captured image to display a modified locus corresponding to the corrected first information. | 06-09-2011 |
20120106791 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus such as a surveillance apparatus and method thereof are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: an object detecting unit which detects a plurality of moving objects from at least one of two or more images obtained by photographing a surveillance area from two or more view points, respectively; a depth determination unit which determines depths of the moving objects based on the two or more images, wherein the depth determination unit determines the moving objects as different objects if the moving objects have different depths. | 05-03-2012 |
20120183177 | IMAGE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING WHETHER OBJECT IS LEFT BEHIND OR TAKEN AWAY - An image surveillance system and a method of detecting whether an object is left behind or taken away are provided. The image surveillance system includes: a foreground detecting unit which detects a foreground region based on a pixel information difference between a background image and a current input image; a still region detecting unit which detects a candidate still region by clustering foreground pixels of the foreground region, and determines whether the candidate still region is a falsely detected still region or a true still region; and an object detecting unit which determines whether an object is left behind or taken away, based on edge information about the true still region. | 07-19-2012 |
20130129144 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OBJECT USING PTZ CAMERA - An apparatus for detecting an object includes a filter for filtering a current input image and a background model generated based on a previous input image, a homography matrix estimation unit for estimating a homography matrix between the current input image and the background model, an image alignment unit for converting the background model by applying the homography matrix to a filtered background model and aligning a converted background model and a filtered current input image, and a foreground/background detection unit for detecting a foreground by comparing corresponding pixels between the converted background model and the filtered current input image. | 05-23-2013 |
20130236120 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES - A method and a system for analyzing multi-channel images are provided. The method includes: receiving a plurality of images through a plurality of channels, respectively; combining selected images among the plurality of images into a single image; and performing an image analysis with respect to: entirety of the combined image by treating the selected images as a single image; or each of the selected images in the combined image. | 09-12-2013 |
20130294655 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING MATRIX-BASED MOTION INCLUDING FREQUENCY TRANSFORM AND FILTERING - A method and system for detecting motion are provided. The method includes: generating a time domain matrix including vectors corresponding to variation of pixel values as elements of the time domain matrix, of a video image including a plurality of frames; generating a motion matrix from which a low frequency area of the video image is removed by multiplying the time domain matrix by a low rank matrix; and generating a result image including a plurality of frames in which vectors, which are elements of the motion matrix, are included as variation of motion pixel values. | 11-07-2013 |
20140078307 | METHOD OF DETECTING CAMERA TEMPERING AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method of detecting camera tempering and a system therefor are provided. The method includes: performing at least one of following operations: (i) detecting a size of a foreground in an image, and determining whether a first condition, that the size exceeds a first reference value, is satisfied, (ii) detecting change of a sum of the largest pixel value differences among pixel value differences between adjacent pixels in selected horizontal lines of the image, according to time, and determining whether a second condition, that the change lasts for a predetermined time period, is satisfied, and (iii) adding up a plurality of global motion vectors with respect to a plurality of images, and determining whether a third condition, that a sum of the global motion vectors exceeds a second reference value, is satisfied; and determining occurrence of camera tempering if at least one of the corresponding conditions is satisfied. | 03-20-2014 |
20140152763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COUNTING NUMBER OF PERSON USING PLURALITY OF CAMERAS - A person counting device generates a single panorama image by using a plurality of images respectively captured by a plurality of cameras, inserts an imaginary line to the single panorama image; and counts the number of persons that pass the imaginary line. To this end, identification numbers are allocated to respective persons in the plurality of images, the single panorama image including the imaginary line is restored to a plurality of images including same imaginary line information, the number of persons that pass a new imaginary line in each of the plurality of restored images is determined, and the number of duplicate-counted persons is ruled out. | 06-05-2014 |
20140241619 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL MOVEMENT - Provided are a method and apparatus for detecting an abnormal movement. The apparatus includes a feature tracing unit configured to extract features of a moving object in an input image, trace a variation in position of the extracted features according to time, and ascertain trajectories of the extracted features; a topic online learning unit configured to classify the input image in units of documents which are bundles of the trajectories, and ascertain probability distribution states of topics, which constitute the classified document, by using an online learning method which is a probabilistic topic model; and a movement pattern online learning unit configured to learn a velocity and a direction for each of the ascertained topics, and learn a movement pattern by inferring a spatiotemporal correlation between the ascertained topics. | 08-28-2014 |
20140375813 | INTEGRATED CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SURVEILLANCE CAMERA FOR VEHICLE - An integrated control system and method using a vehicle surveillance camera, the method including: receiving vehicle license plate number information obtained by analyzing an image captured using the vehicle surveillance camera, from the vehicle surveillance camera via a server; receiving time information and position information about when and where the captured image was generated, from the vehicle surveillance camera via the server; and constructing a database by referring to the vehicle license plate number information, the time information, and the position information received via the server. | 12-25-2014 |