Monitoring device, monitoring system, method, computer program and machine-readable storage medium

Abstract

The invention relates to a monitoring device () for recognizing persons in a monitoring region (), the monitoring region () being video-monitored by means of at least one camera () and the camera () being designed to provide monitoring images () to the monitoring device () as video data, the monitoring device comprising: —a feature determination apparatus (), the feature determination apparatus () being designed to determine a feature vector () for each object in at least one of the monitoring images (); —a person recognition apparatus (), the person recognition apparatus () being designed to detect in the monitoring images () a person to be recognized (), on the basis of the determined feature vector and/or the determined feature vectors () of the feature determination apparatus () and/or a combined feature vector (); —an association apparatus (), the association apparatus () being designed to determine a feature vector () for each person to be recognized () and each associated environment object of the person to be recognized (), the association apparatus () being designed to determine the combined feature vector () on the basis of the feature vector () of the person to be recognized () and the feature vector or the feature vectors () of the associated environment objects.