Recent advances in areas such as video classification, captioning, and activity detection
have significantly expanded the scope of automated analytics that can be performed on …

Surveillance systems are important technological tools that enable monitoring environments
of interest and detecting potential malicious activities. In a world of increasing crime rates …

This chapter provides an introduction to video analytics—a branch of computer vision
technology that deals with automatic detection of activities and events in surveillance video …

Video camera based surveillance systems are key to acquiring intelligence in urban combat
zones. Current systems provide raw image data leaving the intelligence gathering task to …

This article presents an AI-enabled Smart Video Surveillance (SVS) designed to enhance
safety in community spaces such as educational and recreational areas, and small …

Surveillance networks are typically monitored by a few people, viewing several monitors
displaying the camera feeds. It is then very difficult for a human operator to effectively detect …

With surveillance cameras installed everywhere and continuously streaming thousands of
hours of video, how can that huge amount of data be analyzed or even be useful? Is it …

The attack took just a few minutes. Times Square was aglow in the morning darkness but
nearly deserted as a shadowy figure on a bicycle pedaled in and planted a small bomb that …

Video surveillance is gaining popularity in numerous applications, including facility
management, traffic monitoring, crowd analysis, and urban security. Despite the increasing …

Behind the familiar camera housings and lenses, and hidden from their surveilled subjects,
video surveillance systems are becoming much 'smarter'. Though many people still …