“…Lately, digital video surveillance systems have become a high-priority topic of research worldwide [6,16,36,37,40,45,69,98,149,155]. Relevant technologies include automatic, robust face recognition [11,28,92,112,146], gesture recognition [111,142], tracking of human or object movement [9,40,61,68,76,92,102,151], distributed or networked video surveillance with multiple cameras [17,37,53,75], etc. Such systems can be categorized as being hard real-time systems and require one to address some difficult problems when deployed in realworld environments with varying lighting conditions.…”