ABSTRACT
In 1997, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Systems Office in the United States began a three-year program to develop Video Surveillance and Monitoring (VSAM) technology. The objective of the VSAM project was to develop automated video and enable it to understand and evaluate the information received for use in battlefield surveillance applications. The technologies developed under this project enable a single human operator to monitor activities over a large area using intelligent video analysis. The IV systems were designed to be autonomous, notifying the operator only if security threats occurred.
