Intelligent Distributed Video Surveillance Systems (Computing and Networks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863415040 ISBN 13: 9780863415043

Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2005

Synopsis

There is a growing interest in the development and deployment of surveillance systems in public and private locations. Conventional approaches rely on the installation of wide area CCTV (Closed Circuit Television), but the explosion in the numbers of cameras that have to be monitored, the increasing costs of providing monitoring personnel and the limitations that humans have to maintain sustained levels of concentration severely limit the effectiveness of these systems. Advances in information and communication technologies, such as computer vision for face recognition and human behaviour analysis, digital annotation and storage of video, transmission of video/audio streams over wired and wireless networks, can potentially provide significant improvements in this field. The book consists of a coherent selection of extended versions of presentations made in two successful IEE symposia on Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems (IDSS). It surveys recent development in distributed intelligent surveillance systems and brings together the work of researchers and engineers, system integrators and managers of public and private organisations likely to use such systems.

About this title

Synopsis

Conventional video surveillance, where people sit in front of banks of TV monitors may soon become obsolete as key enabling technologies develop. This book details recent developments in machine vision algorithms capable of handling complex visual data acquired by camera systems. It also explores advances in distributed computing and distributed intelligence systems, capable of handling numerous devices and adapting to the evolution of the complex communication networks, thereby inferring a better interpretation of the dynamics of people and objects.

About the Author

Dr Sergio A. Velastin is a Reader at the Digital Imaging Research Centre at Kingston University, London. Dr Paolo Remagnino is a Senior Lecturer at the Digital Imaging Research Centre at Kingston University, London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0863415040
• ISBN 13: 9780863415043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Velastin Sergio A., Remagnino Paolo