Video analytics encompasses a range of software enhancements that law enforcement
agencies use to improve public safety and aid investigations. Perimeter, crowd, and object …

The science of pulling useful data out of digitized video--or video analytics--is an
increasingly confounding task given the staggering amount of archived video and new …

Videos from public-space surveillance cameras have the potential to aid in post-event
investigations and facilitate intervention in live criminal incidents by flagging them as they …

In 2007, only 13 percent of US law enforcement agencies reported having one or more
surveillance cameras permanently mounted in a public area, partly because surveillance …

From the streets of London to subway stations in New York City, hundreds of thousands of
surveillance cameras ubiquitously collect hundreds of thousands of videos, often running …

Video analytics, loosely defined as autonomous understanding of events occurring in a
scene monitored by multiple video cameras, has been rapidly evolving in the last two …

Extensive networks of surveillance cameras are increasingly deployed in public and private
facilities, with tremendous potential value for safety and security. However, because manual …

Abstract The first Video Analytics in Public Safety (VAPS) Workshop was held on Monday,
June 6, 2016, in San Diego, CA as a satellite workshop of the Public Safety Communications …

The use of wide-area persistent surveillance by the US military—employing airborne video-
camera systems to observe large expanses over extended periods of time (see Figure 1)—is …

This paper examines the use of digital video in public safety and surveillance systems.
Traditionally video recordings are used by law enforcement to review events retrospectively …