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Video Stream Analysis in Clouds: An Object Detection and Classification Framework for High Performance Video Analytics

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posted on 2020-07-31, 09:48 authored by Ashiq Anjum, Tariq Abdullah, M Fahim Tariq, Yusuf Baltaci, Nick Antonopoulos
Object detection and classification are the basic tasks in video analytics and become the starting point for other complex applications. Traditional video analytics approaches are manual and time consuming. These are subjective due to the very involvement of human factor. We present a cloud based video analytics framework for scalable and robust analysis of video streams. The framework empowers an operator by automating the object detection and classification process from recorded video streams. An operator only specifies an analysis criteria and duration of video streams to analyse. The streams are then fetched from a cloud storage, decoded and analysed on the cloud. The framework executes compute intensive parts of the analysis to GPU powered servers in the cloud. Vehicle and face detection are presented as two case studies for evaluating the framework, with one month of data and a 15 node cloud. The framework reliably performed object detection and classification on the data, comprising of 21,600 video streams and 175 GB in size, in 6.52 hours. The GPU enabled deployment of the framework took 3 hours to perform analysis on the same number of video streams, thus making it at least twice as fast than the cloud deployment without GPUs.

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Citation

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing ( Volume: 7 , Issue: 4 , Oct.-Dec. 1 2019 )

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School of Engineering

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volume

7

Issue

4

Pagination

1152 - 1167

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

eissn

2372-0018

Copyright date

2016

Language

en

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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7381631

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