Robert Boschgmbh

Marco Boltz

Sven Bauer

Matthias Koenig

Marcel Merkel

Peter Siepen

Aljoscha Smolic

Bernd Schmale

Guido Heising

Video monitoring systems usually comprise one or more monitoring cameras directed to related monitored areas such as intersections, parking lots, manufacturing plants, etc., wherein the image data streams recorded by the monitoring camera (S) are often collected at a monitoring center. In the automated evaluation of image data streams, there are known methods that detect moving objects in the monitored area, track them and carry out evaluations based on the detection or tracking. On the other hand, a monitoring modulefor a video monitoring systemis proposed, wherein the monitoring modulecan be data-coupled and/or is data-coupled to at least one monitoring camera (), wherein the at least one monitoring camerais directed to a monitored area and the monitored area can be displayed or is displayed as a monitoring scene that includes or can include moving foreground objects and a scene background, and wherein the monitoring moduleis designed for the analysis of the monitoring scene and for the output of a signal based on the analysis, wherein the output of the signal based on the analysis of the scene background occurs upon deviations in prescribed base states.

Surveillance module for a video surveillance system, method for monitoring the state of a surveillance region, and computer program

In the method of coding according to the invention whether or not a predetermined encoder capacity parameter has been reached is tested prior to the actual coding of an image sequence. A reduction of the coding format can take place when the capacity parameter has been reached. The coding is then performed in this reduced coding format. This method can be combined with any coding process, since it does not need to intervene in the actual coding process that is used.

Method and device for coding and decoding image sequences

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