Purpose

The goal was to develop an automatic analysis module for videos from multiple surveillance cameras. The system was to be able to detect and track persons in several video sequences, with the purpose of reducing the need to manually search for persons in the videos. A desired functionality was for the system to, given a selected person in one sequence, be able to provide the user with possible matches - persons with similar features in other sequences. An extension of this functionality was for the system to find attributes, e.g. clothes, colors, bags etc., for the persons to make the result searchable.