Digital Compression Technicques for Optical Surveillance Systems

PAPER NOT AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT: The benefits to processing video images in a digital format for surveillance applications can only be achieved if the images can be stored in a reasonable amount of digital storage. Digital compression technology offers a solution for removing redundant image information. Compression reduces the number of digital bits required to be permit more efficient storage or transmission of ideo images. The quality of the resulting compressed image varies with the compression ratio. The hardware in this poster session will show how the various compression ratios affect the images from a live camera. The resulting compression images will permit the viewer to determine when the quality of the images has gone beyond its usefulness