Abandoned Object Detection and Tracking Using CCTV Camera

With the increase in crime and terror rate globally, automated video surveillance, is the need of the hour. Surveillance along with the detection and tracking has become extremely important. Human detection and tracking is ideal, but the random nature of human movement makes it extremely difficult to track and classify as suspicious activities. The primary objective of this is to detect the suspiciously abandoned object recorded by the closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV). The main aim of this project is to ease the load on the controller at the main CCTV station by generating and alarm, whenever there is a detection of an abandoned object. To solve the problem, we first proceeded by the background subtraction such that we obtain the foreground image. Further, we calculated the inter-pixel distance and used area-based thresholding so as to differentiate between the person and the object. The object will further be tracked for a previously set time, which will help the system to decide whether or not the object is abandoned or not. Such a system that can ease the load on single CCTV controller can be deployed in places which require high discipline and security and are more prone to suspicious activities like Airports, Metro station, Railway Stations, entrances and exits of buildings, ATMs, and similar public places.