Index Terms

I. Introduction

II. Intra-Camera Tracking
A. Intra-Camera Background Modeling
B. Intra-Camera Motion Segmentation
C. Intra-Camera Target Tracking

III. Inter-Camera Tracking Correspondence
A. Low Level Features for Visual Appearance Description
B. Integration of Low-Level Features
C. Inter-Camera Target Identification

IV. Camera Relationship
A. Camera Relationship Recovery based on Supervised Correspondence

V. Global Activity Understanding
A. Specific Activity Understanding
B. Rule-based Activity Understanding
C. Statistics-based Global Activity Understanding

VI. Future Development
A. Large Area Calibration
B. Green Computing Technology for Sparse Camera Network-Based Visual Surveillance
C. Integration with Other Modalities
D. Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Network

VII. Conclusion