Video Surveillance Techniques and Technologies

Video Surveillance Techniques and Technologies
Author: Zeljkovic, Vesna
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 146664897X

"This book presents empirical research and acquired experience on the original solutions and mathematical algorithms for motion detection and object identification problems, emphasizing a wide variety of applications of security systems"--Provided by publisher.

CCTV Surveillance

CCTV Surveillance
Author: Herman Kruegle
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080468187

This revision of the classic book on CCTV technology, CCTV Surveillance, provides a comprehensive examination of CCTV, covering the applications of various systems, how to design and install a system, and how to choose the right hardware. Taking into account the ever-changing advances in technology using digital techniques and the Internet, CCTV Surveillance, Second Edition, is completely updated with the recent advancements in digital cameras and digital recorders, remote monitoring via the Internet, and CCTV integration with other security systems. Continuing in the celebrated tradition of the first edition, the second edition is written to serve as a useful resource for the end-user as well as the technical practitioner. Each chapter begins with an overview, and presents the latest information on the relevant equipment, describing the characteristics, features and application of each device. Coverage of aging or obsolete technology is reduced to a historical perspective, and eight brand new chapters cover digital video technology, multiplexers, integrated camera-lens-housing, smart domes, and rapid deployment CCTV systems. - Serves as an indispensable resource on CCTV theory - Includes eight new chapters on the use of digital components and other related technologies that have seen a recent explosion in use - Fully illustrated, the book contains completely updated photographs and diagrams that represent the latest in CCTV technology advancements

Digital Video Surveillance and Security

Digital Video Surveillance and Security
Author: Anthony C. Caputo
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0124200435

The use of digital surveillance technology is rapidly growing as it becomes significantly cheaper for live and remote monitoring. The second edition of Digital Video Surveillance and Security provides the most current and complete reference for security professionals and consultants as they plan, design, and implement surveillance systems to secure their places of business. By providing the necessary explanations of terms, concepts, and technological capabilities, this revised edition addresses the newest technologies and solutions available on the market today. With clear descriptions and detailed illustrations, Digital Video Surveillance and Security is the only book that shows the need for an overall understanding of the digital video surveillance (DVS) ecosystem. - Highly visual with easy-to-read diagrams, schematics, tables, troubleshooting charts, and graphs - Includes design and implementation case studies and best practices - Uses vendor-neutral comparisons of the latest camera equipment and recording options

Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems

Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems
Author: Maheshkumar H Kolekar
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2018-06-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1351649906

This book will provide an overview of techniques for visual monitoring including video surveillance and human activity understanding. It will present the basic techniques of processing video from static cameras, starting with object detection and tracking. The author will introduce further video analytic modules including face detection, trajectory analysis and object classification. Examining system design and specific problems in visual surveillance, such as the use of multiple cameras and moving cameras, the author will elaborate on privacy issues focusing on approaches where automatic processing can help protect privacy.

Video-Based Surveillance Systems

Video-Based Surveillance Systems
Author: Graeme A. Jones
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461509130

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 protecting the privacy of the citizen. It is important to remember, however, that monitoring and vi sual surveillance capabilities can also be employed to aid the citizen. The focus of current development is primarily aimed at public and cor porate safety applications including the monitoring of railway stations, airports, and inaccessible or dangerous environments. Future research effort, however, has already targeted citizen-oriented applications such as monitoring assistants for the aged and infirm, route-planning and congestion-avoidance tools, and a range of environment al monitoring applications. The latest generation of surveillance systems has eagerly adopted re cent technological developments to produce a fully digital pipeline of digital image acquisition, digital data transmission and digital record ing. The resultant surveillance products are highly-fiexihle, capahle of generating forensic-quality imagery, and ahle to exploit existing Internet and wide area network services to provide remote monitoring capability.

Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance

Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance
Author: Sankar K. Pal
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012-01-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1439856842

Information on integrating soft computing techniques into video surveillance is widely scattered among conference papers, journal articles, and books. Bringing this research together in one source, Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance illustrates the application of soft computing techniques to different tasks in video surveillance. Worldwide experts in the field present novel solutions to video surveillance problems and discuss future trends. After an introduction to video surveillance systems and soft computing tools, the book gives examples of neural network-based approaches for solving video surveillance tasks and describes summarization techniques for content identification. Covering a broad spectrum of video surveillance topics, the remaining chapters explain how soft computing techniques are used to detect moving objects, track objects, and classify and recognize target objects. The book also explores advanced surveillance systems under development. Incorporating both existing and new ideas, this handbook unifies the basic concepts, theories, algorithms, and applications of soft computing. It demonstrates why and how soft computing methodologies can be used in various video surveillance problems.

Technology in Schools

Technology in Schools
Author: Kevin P. Brady
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483305813

Education of America′s school children always has been and always will be a hot-button issue. From what should be taught to how to pay for education to how to keep kids safe in schools, impassioned debates emerge and mushroom, both within the scholarly community and among the general public. This volume in the point/counterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of technology in schools. Fifteen to twenty chapters explore such varied issues as the digital divide, electronic textbooks, impacts on curricula, privacy on school computers, web censorship, and more. Each chapter opens with an introductory essay by the volume editor, followed by point/counterpoint articles written and signed by invited experts, and concludes with Further Readings and Resources, thus providing readers with views on multiple sides of technology issues within America′s schools and pointing them toward more in-depth resources for further exploration.

Surveillance Cinema

Surveillance Cinema
Author: Catherine Zimmer
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2015-04-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1479864374

In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema. Catherine Zimmer examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. Drawing on the growing field of surveillance studies and the politics of contemporary monitoring practices, she demonstrates that screen narrative has served to organize political, racial, affective, and even material formations around and through surveillance. She considers how popular culture forms are intertwined with the current political landscape in which the imagery of anxiety, suspicion, war, and torture has become part of daily life. From Enemy of the State and The Bourne Series to Saw, Caché and Zero Dark Thirty, Surveillance Cinema explores in detail the narrative tropes and stylistic practices that characterize contemporary films and television series about surveillance.

Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance

Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance
Author: Andrew Senior
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2009-07-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1848823010

Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance offers the state of the art from leading researchers and experts in the field. This broad ranging volume discusses the topic from various technical points of view and also examines surveillance from a societal perspective. A comprehensive introduction carefully guides the reader through the collection of cutting-edge research and current thinking. The technical elements of the field feature topics from MERL blind vision, stealth vision and privacy by de-identifying face images, to using mobile communications to assert privacy from video surveillance, and using wearable computing devices for data collection in surveillance environments. Surveillance and society is approached with discussions of security versus privacy, the rise of surveillance, and focusing on social control. This rich array of the current research in the field will be an invaluable reference for researchers, as well as graduate students.