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Abstract
Smart surveillance systems contribute to situation awareness. Such systems transform video surveillance from a data acquisition tool to information and intelligence acquisition systems. Real-time video analysis provides smart surveillance systems with the ability to react to an activity in real-time, thus acquiring relevant information at much higher resolution. Long-term operation of these systems provides the ability to analyze information in a spatiotemporal context.