By G. L. Foresti, L. Snidaro (auth.), Gian Luca Foresti, Carlo S. Regazzoni, Pramod K. Varshney (eds.)
Monitoring of private and non-private websites is more and more changing into a crucial and demanding factor, in particular after the new flurry of terrorist assaults together with the only at the be aware exchange middle in September 2001. it truly is, hence, vital that potent multisensor surveillance structures be constructed to guard the society from related assaults sooner or later. the recent new release of surveillance platforms to be built have a particular requirement: they have to have the capacity to instantly establish felony and terrorist job with out sacrificing person privateness to the level attainable. privateness legislation touching on tracking and surveillance structures differ from kingdom to nation yet, ordinarily, they fight to guard the privateness in their voters. tracking and visible surveillance has a number of different purposes. it may be hired to assist invalids or handicapped and to watch the actions of aged humans. it may be used to observe huge occasions comparable to sporting activities, besides. these days, tracking is employ~d in different various contexts together with shipping purposes, comparable to tracking of railway stations and airports, harmful environments like nuclear amenities or site visitors flows on roads and bridges. the most recent iteration of surveillance platforms as a rule depend on hybrid analog-digital, or thoroughly electronic video communications and processing equipment and benefit from the better of suppleness provided by way of video processing algorithms which are able focusing a human operator's awareness on a collection of fascinating situations.
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1 Physical architecture The physical architecture is sketched in fig. 1; it is composed by two computational units (750Mhz PentiumIII based PC) both connected to CCD pan-tilt cameras. In particular an outdoor surveillance camera as been used as static sensor to monitor the entire scene, whereas the second camera is equipped with a mobile head· unit and acts as active sensor that can be pan/tilt/zoom controlled through the host pc. Frame grabbers in the two PCs acquire images in PAL format (768x576) with 24bits color depth; images are actually processed at 2 frames per second.
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