Infrastructure

Overall processing system

The processing infrastructure (see below) is made of 3 x IP Video Cameras (Axis M1145-L), each having attached a Raspberry PI 3 (model B) platform. The communication is powered over a local LAN switch.




AXIS M1145-L Network Camera

Specifications:

  • Image quality at HDTV 1080p / 2-megapixel resolution at full frame rate;
  • Edge storage enables the unit to store locally on SDCard acquired images;
  • P-iris features which allows the camera to focus simultaneously on multiple objects on scene (situated on different scene depths);
  • Camera image sensor: 1/2.9" progressive scan RGB CMOS;
  • Lens: Varifocal, P-Iris 3-10.5 mm, F1.4 Horizontal field of view: 95°-34° Vertical field of view: 47°-19° Built-in IR-cut filter and motorized focus/zoom;
  • Day and night Automatically removable infrared-cut filter;
  • Minimum illumination: Color at 0.4 lux, F1.4 Black and white at 0.08 lux, F1.4, 0 lux with IR illumination on;
  • Shutter time: 1/28000 s to 2 s with 50 Hz 1/33500 s to 2 s with 60 Hz;
  • Video compression: H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC) Baseline, Main Profiles Motion JPEG;
  • Supported resolutions: 1920x1080 to 160x90 Frame rate 25/30 fps in all resolutions with power line frequency 50/60 Hz;
  • Video streaming: Multiple, individually configurable streams in H.264 and Motion JPEG Controllable frame rate and bandwidth VBR/MBR H.264;
  • Image settings: Compression, color, brightness, sharpness, contrast, white balance, backlight compensation, mirroring of images, rotation - including corridor format, text and image overlay, privacy mask, rotation: 0°, 90°, 180°, 270° WDR - dynamic contrast, exposure control, exposure zones, fine tuning of behavior at low light.



Raspberry PI 3 (Model B)

    Specifications:

  • Broadcom BCM2837 SoC (ARM System on Chip);
  • Quad Core 1.2GHz 64bit CPU;
  • 1GB RAM;
  • GPU: Broadcom VideoCore;
  • BCM43438 wireless LAN and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) on board;
  • 40-pin extended GPIO;
  • 4 USB 2 ports;
  • 4 Pole stereo output and composite video port;
  • Full size HDMI;
  • CSI camera port for connecting a Raspberry Pi camera;
  • DSI display port for connecting a Raspberry Pi touchscreen display;
  • 128 GB Micro SDCard (high speed class 10) for loading operating system and storing data;
  • Upgraded switched Micro USB power source up to 2.5A;
  • Supported operating systems: Windows or Linux distribution (NOOB, Raspbian, Ubuntu, etc.);
  • Support for programming techniques: C/C++ şi Python;
  • Support for network storing: NAS (Network Attached Storage), up to 12TB, SATA III supporting JBOD, RAID 0 and RAID 1.



Demonstrator (TRL4)

The developed system (hardware-software) works in the following way: application startup and operator tracking of the live remote stream; a subject enters the visual range of the camera; the operator presses the Freeze Frame button and selects the subject to be searched for; the operator presses the Process Selection button and starts the function which searches the database of records; the results are displayed, in groups of 4, depending on the distance between the descriptor of the subject analyzed and the descriptors of the subjects in the database; the operator analyzes the correctness of the results.

About

The SPOTTER project is funded under research grant PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-1065, agreement 30PED/2017 and is spanning over 18 months (January 2017 to June 2018).

The proposed technology will be capable of automatically finding the occurrence of a DROP instance by running specialized algorithms embedded directly on the IP video cameras.

Objectives

  • Advanced DROP retrieving algorithms running on low resources embedded hardware platforms

  • Techniques for real-time identification and tracking capabilities from multiple video sources

  • Techniques for algorithms which can dynamically adjust the running parameters according to task variables

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