Multisensor Surveillance Systems

. Ed(s): Foresti, Gian Luca (Universita di Udine, Udine, Italy); Regazzoni, Carlo S.; Varshney, Pramod K.

ISBN 10: 1402074921 / ISBN 13: 9781402074929

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

About this Item

Focuses on multisensor fusion aspects of video monitoring and surveillance. This book addresses several research and application issues by providing a selective set of invited contributions on topics ranging from complex event detection and human behavior understanding to biometric feature extraction for combating terrorism. Editor(s): Foresti, Gian Luca (Universita di Udine, Udine, Italy); Regazzoni, Carlo S.; Varshney, Pramod K. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TNKS; UYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609. . 2003. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multisensor Surveillance Systems
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402074921
• ISBN 13: 9781402074929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Monitoring of public and private sites is increasingly becoming a very important and critical issue, especially after the recent flurry of terrorist attacks including the one on the Word Trade Center in September 2001. It is, therefore, imperative that effective multisensor surveillance systems be developed to protect the society from similar attacks in the future. The new generation of surveillance systems to be developed have a specific requirement: they must be able to automatically identify criminal and terrorist activity without sacrificing individual privacy to the extent possible. Privacy laws concerning monitoring and surveillance systems vary from country to country but, in general, they try to protect the privacy of their citizens. Monitoring and visual surveillance has numerous other applications. It can be employed to help invalids or handicapped and to monitor the activities of elderly people. It can be used to monitor large events such as sporting events, as well. Nowadays, monitoring is employ~d in several different contexts including transport applications, such as monitoring of railway stations and airports, dangerous environments like nuclear facilities or traffic flows on roads and bridges. The latest generation of surveillance systems mainly rely on hybrid analog-digital, or completely digital video communications and processing methods and take advantage of the greater of flexibility offered by video processing algorithms that are capable focusing a human operator's attention on a set of interesting situations.