Patent ID: 8472714

Claim:
A video surveillance system comprising: a number of video surveillance cameras connected to a common communication network; at least one identification apparatus connected to the common communication network, the at least one identification apparatus comprising: an object identification unit arranged to identify a specific object plurality of images in a video sequence; a processor arranged to preprocess said plurality of images in order to segment the specific object from the rest of the scene; a color histogram generator arranged to generate a color histogram in at least two dimensions of a color space based on color and intensity information of the specific object originating from the segmented plurality of images of the video sequence; and an object properties identificator arranged to identify properties of the specific object based on the generated color histogram; a tracking device for tracking an object in a video surveillance system, the tracking device being connected to the common communication network, said device comprising: a receiver for receiving information from the at least one identification apparatus, the information comprising information regarding identified properties of a candidate object identified in a first video sequence captured by a first video surveillance camera and information regarding identified properties of an object to track identified in a second video sequence captured by a second video surveillance camera; a matching unit for matching the identified properties of the candidate object with the identified properties of the object to track; and a calculation unit for calculating, based on the matching step, the likelihood of the candidate object being identical to the object to track.