A Review on Vision Surveillance Techniques in Smart Home Environments

Video surveillance is an important area of computer vision research, its applications including both outdoor and indoor automated surveillance systems. In the context of smart home environments, the In-House Video Surveillance systems have as main goal to control the safety and the security of materials and of people living in a domestic environment. This paper provides an overview of various methods and techniques from the computer vision research area that address the problems of representation, recognition and learning of events, actions and activities of inhabitants from a domotic environment.