M7VPR

POSI/CPS/48606/2002 M7VPR, “MPEG-7 based Video Pattern Recognition” (2005-2007)

The M7VPR project objectives are to develop algorithms for traffic pattern recognition in a MPEG -7 descriptions based monitoring system. The work is performed in the scope of the recent “Multimedia Content Description Interface” ISO standard (a.k.a. MPEG-7) and will be demonstrated in a multi-camera video surveillance application for car traffic monitoring. A Pattern is the opposite of chaos, it is an entity vaguely defined that could be given a name. Pattern recognition objective is then to find and explicitly define this entity, i.e., to describe its structure. In the business world, the most powerful infrastructure for information analysis and pattern recognition is Data Warehousing systems.

In the multimedia world this approach was not yet implemented because it required a “Multimedia Content Description Interface”, which is now provided through MPEG-7, the standard for describing the multimedia content data that supports to some degree the interpretation of the information’s meaning. The challenge now is to specify and develop a MPEG-7 based intelligence density framework for semi-automatic video monitoring of reality. We concentrate in traffic modelling because this is a very important real-time application for which we have already some results, though not yet working in real-time.”

ADETTI was the coordinator of this project.

This project was funded by FCT under POSC.