Deployment of smart CCTV requires understanding its social-psychological impact as well
as the ethical and legal implications. The featured Web extra is a video interview with …

This Special Issue offers an overview of ongoing research on intelligent video surveillance
(IVS) techniques, and brings together cutting-edge research work on security and privacy …

At the request of the Senate Committee on Privacy, chaired by Senator Steve Peace, in this
report the California Research Bureau (CRB) presents a survey of Close-Circuit Television …

In the post 9/11 era, population security and safety considerations have given rise to
research needed for identification of threatening human activities and emotional behavior …

In recent months, wired. com and other media outlets have published articles that discussed
the trade-off between privacy and security. More specifically, these reports referred to the …

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

Forms of surveillance are very quickly becoming an integral part of crime control policy,
crisis management, social control theory and community consciousness. In turn, it has been …

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 …

Especially in urban environments, video cameras have become omnipresent. Supporters of
video surveillance argue that it is an excellent tool for many applications including crime …

Closed-circuit television cameras used today for surveillance sometimes enable privacy
intrusion. The authors' privacy console manages operator access to different versions of …