1. An identification apparatus in a video surveillance system, the identification apparatus comprising: an object identification unit for identifying a specific object in a video sequence; a color histogram generator for generating a color histogram in at least two dimensions of a color space based on color and intensity information of the specific object identified in the video sequence, the color and intensity information originating from a plurality of images of the video sequence; and an object properties identificator for identifying properties of the object based on the generated color histogram.