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 d...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Foresti, Gian Luca (HerausgeberIn), Regazzoni, Carlo S. (HerausgeberIn), Varshney, Pramod K. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Springer US 2003
Ausgabe:	1st ed. 2003
Schlagworte:	Image Processing and Computer Vision Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics Signal, Image and Speech Processing Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Electrical Engineering Optical data processing Signal processing Image processing Speech processing systems Statistics  Electrical engineering
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 289 p)
ISBN:	9781461503712
DOI:	10.1007/978-1-4615-0371-2