Development of a video surveillance system based on image processing

Funded by the company Tecnologias Digitales Audiovisuales (TEDIAL), Duration: Two years (2005-2006)

Description: In this project a video surveillance prototype was developed for the company ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias) to detect obstacles in railways. Keypoints of the prototype include:

• Autonomous operation usign solar energy
• Detection of stationary objects in the railway
• Robust operation under adverse weather conditions (rain, fog, solar glare, etc)
• Night vision operation using infrared illumination
• Storage and indexing of alarms information in remote control centers
• Low bandwith requires alarms transmision using GPRS communications
• Easily scalable to dozens of installations

A picture of an installation. There is a solar panel with batteries, an infrared illuminator, a computer that runs the obstacles detection application and a PTZ dome network camera:

The remote control GUI. It allows to search and examine alarms and periodical images sent from different instalations: