A video analysis framework for soft biometry security surveillance

We propose a distributed, multi-camera video analysis paradigm for aiport security surveillance. We propose to use a new class of biometry signatures, which are called soft biometry including a person's height, built, skin tone, color of shirts and trousers, motion pattern, trajectory history, etc., to ID and track errant passengers and suspicious events without having to shut down a whole terminal building and cancel multiple flights. The proposed research is to enable the reliable acquisition, maintenance, and correspondence of soft biometry signatures in a coordinated manner from a large number of video streams for security surveillance. The intellectual merit of the proposed research is to address three important video analysis problems in a distributed, multi-camera surveillance network: sensor network calibration, peer-to-peer sensor data fusion, and stationary-dynamic cooperative camera sensing.