In modern society, the development of a territory is increasingly tied to the capability to
ensure an adequate level of security to persons and infrastructures. Criminal acts, including …

Recent changes in the dynamic characteristics of security and emergency management
requirements have a big impact on the development of more effective security systems …

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 …

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 …

Intelligent multimedia surveillance concerns the analysis of multiple sensing inputs including
video and audio streams, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and depth data. These data …

In recent years, several innovative security technologies have been developed. However,
many of the novel sensing technologies (eg video analytics) do not always feature a high …

Security of public infrastructures and for large events (cultural, sporting) traditionally relies
on monolithic video surveillance systems, where security operators are quickly overloaded …

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 …

Modern security systems employed in infrastructure surveillance applications include a set
of different sensing technologies integrated by appropriate management systems. Such …

Monitoring of public and private sites has increasingly become a very sensitive issue
resulting in a patchwork of privacy laws varying from country to country-though all aimed at …