Thermal video processing support for rescue operations

In this paper we present the components of a thermal video processing application designated to provide support for rescue scenarios within the SHARE system. The videos are recorded with state-of-theart portable thermal cameras, and video processing tasks are considered to extract useful information from them. As we focus on fire scenarios, successful hotspotand human detection/tracking are desired goals. The formal video content description is provided in terms of an XML Schema, which provides the possibility to populate metadata to the knowledge base (ontology) of the system.