the object of interest through a given region of interest are identified and marked suitable methods for marking the individual points along the path are described in xuhui zhou robert t collins takeo kanade and peter metes a master slave system to acquire biometric imagery of humans at distance first acm sigmm international workshop on video surveillance 2003 which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety having identified the plurality of points along a predicted path of the object of interest the operational parameters i e the pan tilt and zoom parameters for each steerable camera associated with the region of interest are interpolated based upon the predicted path points the ptz parameters are established at each one of the plurality of points and linear interpolation is applied between the ptz parameters established at the points the ptz parameters cover points and not regions except as implicitly defined by proximity to the points referring to fig2 in one embodiment a gui 104 is provided for manipulating the regions of interest 102 within a given field of view 106 associated with a master camera the contents of the field of view 106 are displayed in a display area 108 within the gui 104 the displayed contents can be a live video feed or a replay of captured.