An IEEE 1394 - FireWire - based embedded video system for surveillance applications

Author

Saad, Ashraf ; Smith, Donnie

Author_Institution

Intelligent Evolutional Syst. Lab., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Savannah, GA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

21-22 July 2003

Firstpage

213

Lastpage

218

Abstract

In order to address the need for portable inexpensive systems for video surveillance, we built a computer vision system that provides digital video data transfer from a CCD camera using embedded software/hardware via the IEEE 1394 protocol, also known as FireWire or i.Link, and Ethernet TCP/IP interfaces. Controlled by an extended version of the IEEE 1394-based digital camera specification (DCAM), the system is made up of entirely open interfaces that provide many image resolutions and frame rates, and digital signal processing and compression capabilities. We present the design of the system and its performance on running a digital signal processing application. We also give details about the software and hardware architecture, as well as our directions for future research and development.

Keywords

edge detection; embedded systems; image resolution; local area networks; surveillance; transport protocols; video signal processing; CCD camera; Ethernet TCP/IP interfaces; FireWire; IEEE 1394 protocol; computer vision system; digital camera specification; digital signal compression; digital signal processing; digital video data transfer; edge detection algorithm; embedded hardware; embedded software; embedded video system; frame rates; image resolution; surveillance applications; Application software; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Computer vision; Digital cameras; Digital signal processing; Embedded software; Firewire; Hardware; Video surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1971-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AVSS.2003.1217924

Filename

1217924