ADAPTIVE WORKLOAD DISTRIBUTION FOR NETWORK OF VIDEO PROCESSORS

Techniques are provided for adaptive distribution of video analysis workload over a network of video processor nodes. The nodes may include, for example, internet protocol (IP) cameras, video recorders and/or data centers. The network may also include a management system configured to assign video analysis tasks to the nodes based on the node resources and predictive modelling of the node workload. The management system may re-distribute the tasks based on performance monitoring. Some assigned tasks may be bound to the node while other tasks may be transferrable, by the node, to other nodes. The nodes may be configured to determine which of the transferrable tasks will be locally executed or transferred based on a check of resource usage against a usage policy that specifies thresholds for the determinations. The nodes may be configured to transmit video analysis packets, including image data, analysis completion status and analysis results, to other nodes.