“…Automated analysis of security video sequences is still an open issue that demands adaptation of existing technology to cope with increasing challenges, such as the ones mentioned in the previous section, e.g., low image quality, lack of training samples, etc. Some of the directions and research topics in video surveillance systems include: detection, categorization and tracking of objects of interest in video (e.g., people, vehicles, abandoned baggages) [8,23,18], recognition of their activities (e.g., event and behavior analysis) [22], and efficient technologies to process large amounts of data (Big Data) [7]. Generally all these tasks more or less follow a basic framework.…”