Clovis - a generic framework for general purpose visual surveillance applications

Abstract

Abstract Today's video-surveillance software are often based uponmonolitic software running on PCs or embedded systems also called intelligent sensors; but, no real inter-actions exists between elements of a network dedicated to a video-surveillance scenario. The new framework,named "Clovis " (which stands for `Composant LOgiciel pour la VIdeo-Surveillance '- Software Component forVideo-Surveillance) proposes, for the video-analysis world, a new approach to develop and deploy modular software forand in those sensors on scalable network. Through three sample applications, we present in this article, how the un-derlined framework can be used to easily develop software on a stand-alone manner or using distributed computing toenhance video-analysis