Forensic Video Analysis: Passive Tracking System for Automated Person of Interest (POI) Localization

Video recorders record the output of each security camera. After an incident, the video footage can be used for evidence by locating a suspect or criminal for a crime. A manual scan of the video footage requires a considerable amount of manpower and time, a luxury which cannot be afforded when track...

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Main Authors: Aftab Khan, Sakhi Rehman, Muhammad Waleed, Ashfaq Khan, Umair Khan, Tariq Kamal, Shehryar Khan Afridi, Safdar Nawaz Khan Marwat
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Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
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Sakhi Rehman
Muhammad Waleed
Ashfaq Khan
Umair Khan
Tariq Kamal
Shehryar Khan Afridi
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Umair Khan
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description Video recorders record the output of each security camera. After an incident, the video footage can be used for evidence by locating a suspect or criminal for a crime. A manual scan of the video footage requires a considerable amount of manpower and time, a luxury which cannot be afforded when tracking down a person of interest (POI). An automated system is proposed in this paper which aims at finding the desired POI through the available volume of video data quickly and accurately. It is visualized to go through all the available videos and detect the POI using facial recognition. Thereafter, it would create a video montage of all the desired frames and incorporate time and location information to produce a path map followed by the POI. The proposed system reduces the human burden, human error and reduces the time taken when searching the POI manually. Validation has been performed on various video data collected by ourselves as well. The results depict that the proposed system is able to correctly identify POI with an accuracy of 86% for video data captured in a constrained environment. Videos captured by a cell phone in an unconstrained environment result in an accuracy of around 80%. Real video tested in our university campus revealed the proposed system is capable of generating tracking information for POI effectively.
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spelling doaj-art-56c273ba03a44f069bddf23bbf6ea9a72025-08-20T01:52:10ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016433924340310.1109/ACCESS.2018.28569368421576Forensic Video Analysis: Passive Tracking System for Automated Person of Interest (POI) LocalizationAftab Khan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1797-0965Sakhi Rehman1Muhammad Waleed2Ashfaq Khan3Umair Khan4Tariq Kamal5Shehryar Khan Afridi6Safdar Nawaz Khan Marwat7Department of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology at Peshawar, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology at Peshawar, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology at Peshawar, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology at Peshawar, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Attock, Attock, PakistanDepartment of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology at Peshawar, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology at Peshawar, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology at Peshawar, Peshawar, PakistanVideo recorders record the output of each security camera. After an incident, the video footage can be used for evidence by locating a suspect or criminal for a crime. A manual scan of the video footage requires a considerable amount of manpower and time, a luxury which cannot be afforded when tracking down a person of interest (POI). An automated system is proposed in this paper which aims at finding the desired POI through the available volume of video data quickly and accurately. It is visualized to go through all the available videos and detect the POI using facial recognition. Thereafter, it would create a video montage of all the desired frames and incorporate time and location information to produce a path map followed by the POI. The proposed system reduces the human burden, human error and reduces the time taken when searching the POI manually. Validation has been performed on various video data collected by ourselves as well. The results depict that the proposed system is able to correctly identify POI with an accuracy of 86% for video data captured in a constrained environment. Videos captured by a cell phone in an unconstrained environment result in an accuracy of around 80%. Real video tested in our university campus revealed the proposed system is capable of generating tracking information for POI effectively.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8421576/Video forensicsfacial recognitionpassive trackingvideo summarizationsurveillancesecurity
spellingShingle Aftab Khan
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Ashfaq Khan
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Tariq Kamal
Shehryar Khan Afridi
Safdar Nawaz Khan Marwat
Forensic Video Analysis: Passive Tracking System for Automated Person of Interest (POI) Localization
IEEE Access
Video forensics
facial recognition
passive tracking
video summarization
surveillance
security
title Forensic Video Analysis: Passive Tracking System for Automated Person of Interest (POI) Localization
title_full Forensic Video Analysis: Passive Tracking System for Automated Person of Interest (POI) Localization
title_fullStr Forensic Video Analysis: Passive Tracking System for Automated Person of Interest (POI) Localization
title_full_unstemmed Forensic Video Analysis: Passive Tracking System for Automated Person of Interest (POI) Localization
title_short Forensic Video Analysis: Passive Tracking System for Automated Person of Interest (POI) Localization
title_sort forensic video analysis passive tracking system for automated person of interest poi localization
topic Video forensics
facial recognition
passive tracking
video summarization
surveillance
security
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8421576/
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