1. A method of enabling retrieval of information from a video surveillance system, the method comprising: automatically identifying an object of interest in a video scene of a master camera or a slave camera, the object of interest for the slave camera being determined as a function of metadata from the master camera; automatically classifying at least one feature in the object of interest; tracking the object of interest by adjusting the slave camera's field of view based on object information included in the metadata from the master camera and processing the video scene at the slave camera based on the object information from the master camera; and storing a representation of the at least one feature in a form of metadata, including the metadata from the master camera to the slave camera and slave metadata associated with the object identified, the stored representation associated with video of at least the slave camera in a manner enabling retrieval of information about the object of interest, wherein the slave metadata includes detailed object information extracted from the video scene by the slave camera.