Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems

Multimedia surveillance systems is an emerging field that includes signal and image processing, communications, and computer vision. Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions, combines the most recent research results from these areas for use by engineers and end-users involved in the design of surveillance systems in the fields of transportation and services. The book covers emerging surveillance requirements, including new digital sensors for real-time acquisition of surveillance data, low-level image processing algorithms, and event detection methods. It also discusses problems related to knowledge representation in surveillance systems, wireless and wired multimedia networks, and a new generation of surveillance communication tools. Timely information is presented on digital watermarking, broadband multimedia transmission, legal use of surveillance systems, performance evaluation criteria, and other new and emerging topics, along with applications for transports and pedestrian monitoring. The information contained in Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions, bridges the distance between present practice and research findings, and the book is an indispensable reference tool for professional engineers.

1. Emerging Requirements. - 1. 1 Forensic Video Investigation: The Surveillance Videotape as Evidence in Court. - 1. 2 Railway Station Surveillance: The Italian Case. - 1. 3 Requirements for Visual Perception of Automotive Environments. - 2. Digital Sensors and Adaptive Low Level Processing. - 2. 1 Cmos Image Sensing for Surveillance Applications and Object Tracking. - 2. 2 DSP-Oriented Low Level Processing for Adaptive Tuning of Video Surveillance Images. - 2. 3 Image Analysis for Advanced Video Surveillance. - 3. Detection, Learning and Recognition. - 3. 1 Dynamic Shape Detection for Multiple Camera Systems. - 3. 2 Learning and Classification of Suspicious Events for Advanced Visual-Based Surveillance. - 3. 3 A New Solution Philosophy for Complex Pattern Recognition Problems: Application to Advanced Video-Surveillance. - 4. Distributed Intelligent Systems. - 4. 1 An Agent Society for Scene Interpretation. - 4. 2 Dyta: An Intelligent System for Dynamic Target Analysis. - 4. 3 Single Camera Multiplexing for Multi-Target Tracking. - 4. 4 Network Management within an Architecture for Distributed Hierarchial Digital Surveillance Systems. - 5. Communications and Multimedia Transmission. - 5. 1 Scalable H. 324 Video-Based Surveillance System. - 5. 2 Broadband Multimedia Transmission For Surveillance Applications. - 5. 3 Digital Watermarking for the Authentication of AVS Video Sequences. - 5. 4 Actual High-Speed Modem Solutions for Multimedia Transmission in Remote Cable-Based Video-Surveillance Systems. - 6. Performance Evaluation and Applications. - 6. 1 Minimax Based Regulation of Change Detection Threshold in Video-Surveillance Systems. - 6. 2 Performance Analysis of Multi- Sensor Based Real-Time People Detection and Tracking System. - 6. 3 Use of Different Time Scale References for Measuring Several Crowd Situations. - 6. 4 Vehicle Detection From Multiple Radar Images in an Advanced System for Driving Assistance. - 6. 5 License-Plate Recognition for Restricted-Access Area Control. - 6. 6 Dynamic Vision for License Plate Recognition.