Overview
Crime and anti-social behaviour have a significant cost for society and business alike. In the UK anti-social behaviour alone accounts annually for around £3.3 billion of taxpayers’ money with incidents of graffiti and vandalism estimated to cost around £600 million/p.a. Surveillance systems of all kinds are thus being increasingly deployed in public and private locations serving as deterrence and/or for information gathering. Recent world events have once again highlighted the vulnerability of public spaces to terrorist attacks. However, there are serious limitations to the use of conventional monitoring systems where human operators are asked to survey a large number of cameras with a wide geographical coverage or go through enormous amounts of recorded material. Computer-based technologies are increasingly becoming researched in what are becoming known as intelligent imaging systems, propelled by recent advances in fixed and wireless IP-networking technologies, volume storage, cheap cameras, fast computing facilities, etc. The realisation of such advances into working systems can have a major impact on society. This symposium follows the successful IDSS (Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems) events held in 2003 and 2004 and ICDP 2005, to bring together researchers, industry, end-users and law-enforcing agencies to share experiences and explore areas where additional research and development are needed and identify possible collaboration.
Programme
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Conference on
CRIME AND SECURITY
The Technical Fight
13 – 14 June 2006
Savoy Place, London, UK
| Tuesday, 13 June 2006 |
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| 08.45 |
Registration and Refreshments |
| 09.15 |
Opening Remarks from the Chair
Sergio Velastin, Kingston University, UK |
| 09.20 |
Keynote Address: What’s the Problem?
Professor Gloria Laycock, Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science, UK
- How to identify and define crime and disorder problems
- Examples of generic solutions – and what works
- Looking forward – what might we need by 2050?
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| Session 1: Digital CCTV and Visualisation: From Supply to Operation |
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| 09.50 |
Practical Applications of Digital Technology in CCTV
Gary James, Business Development Director, Visimetrics (UK) Ltd, UK
- The deployment and operation of Digital CCTV - what is "Digital CCTV" today?
- Practical considerations for Digital CCTV users and best practice advice
- Using Digital Images as Evidence
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| 10.15 |
Visualisation in Security Control Rooms
Robert Wu,Head of Market and Business Development Barco Control Rooms, Belgium
- Alternative solutions to save space, money and operational costs
- Ergonomics: Moving to PCs with IP based solutions
- Visual Automation: an often forgotten aspect to operational automation
- Networked Visualisation – a new visualisation concept to ensure faster, better decisions
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| 10.40 |
City watch CCTV
Lee Walters, Operations Manager, Liverpool City Watch CCTV, UK
- Examples of daily occurrences such as aggression, unusual road traffic etc.
- ANPR and its relation to CCTV for prevention, detection, intelligence and retrospective investigation
- ASB, targeting hotspots and how to deal with finite response resources
Lee Walters, Operations Manager, Liverpool City Watch CCTV, UK
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| 11.05 |
Refreshments |
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| Session 2: Forensics |
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| 11.25 |
Latent Fingerprint Visualisation Using a Scanning Kelvin Probe: The Technology Behind The Headlines
G Williams and H N McMurray, University of Wales, UK |
| 11.50 |
Colour 3d X-Ray Imaging for Security Screening
J P O Evans, X Wang, J W Chan and D Downes, Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| 12.15 |
Toward Automatic Bloodspatter Analysis in Crime Scenes
A R Shen, G J Brostow and R Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 12.40 |
Poster Presentations:
On-Board Video Surveillance with Real-Time Wireless Transmission: Turin Metro Case Study
Alberto Forchino, GTT SpA, Italy
Improving Target Identification using Pairs of Composite Faces Constructed by the Same Person
C D Frowd, Y Plenderleith and P J B Hancock, Stirling University, UK
V Bruce, University of Edinburgh, UK
Motion Detection with Networked Cellular Vision System for Preventing Crime and Security
Hiroyuki Kawai, Kanasawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Hisato Kobayashi, Hosei University, Japan
Reliable Real-Time Optical Flow Estimation for Surveillance Applications
J Li, S G Nikolov, N E Scott-Samuel and C P Benton, University of Bristol, UK
iPLOT – An Intelligent Pervasive Location Tracking System
Rainer Mautz and Washington Ochieng, Imperial College London, UK
Gary Brodin, Andy Kemp and Bo Peng, University of Leeds, UK
Audio-Video Event Recognition System for Public Transport Security
Van-Thinh Vu, Francois Bremond, Gabriele Davini and Monique Thonnat, INRIA, France
Quoc-Cuong Pham, Nicolas Allezard and Patrick Sayd, CEA/LIST, France
Jean-Luc Rouas, Sébastien Ambellouis and Amaury Flancquart, INRETS/LEOST, France
Face Protection with Fast Selective Encryption in a Video Sequence
J M Rodrigues, W Puech, P Meuel, J C Bajardand and M Chaumont, University of Montpellier II, France
Management of a Multi-Camera System for Tracking Human Activity
C Motamed, R Lherbier and D Hamad, Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale, France
Implementation and Optimisation of a Video Object Segmentation Algorithm on an Embedded DSP Platform
S P Ierodiaconou and N Dahnoun, University of Bristol, UK
L-Q Xu, BT Research and Venturing, UK
Bayesian Fusion of Contour Descriptions: Application to 3-D Object and Face Recognition
Sotirios N Raptis and Dimitris Koutsouris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Imagery Library for Intelligent Detection Systems (i-LIDS)
Paul Hosmer, Home Office Scientific Development Branch, UK |
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| Session 3: Industrial Research & Development |
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| 13.30 |
The Issues and Developments in Surveillance Imaging
Dave Barrett, Technical Lead, Integrated Surveillance, QinetiQ, UK
- Sensor and multimodal updates
- Processing and how sensors fit the process
- Applications CCTV AMPR multi sensor update
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| 13.55 |
Smart Camera Designs and Applications
Rita Chattopadhyay, Project Manager, Embedded Systems for Computer Vision, SIEMENS Corporate Technology, India
- An Ideal Smart Camera design
- Analysis of a few Vision based Real time Embedded security
- Importance of DSP architectural knowledge for optimal real time performance
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| 14.20 |
Machine Vision Search Tools in Surveillance Applications
David Hearn, MD, Firstsight Vision, UK
- Searching for "Organic" Image content
- Demonstration of Gender Classification
- Demonstration of ANPR and vehicle classification
- So what could be done with this technology?
David Hearn, MD, Firstsight Vision, UK
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| 14.45 |
Refreshments |
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| Session 4: Visual Surveillance I |
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| 15.05 |
Behaviour Recognition and Explanation for Video Surveillance
Neil Robertson, QinetiQ and University of Oxford, UK
Ian Reid and Michael Brady, University of Oxford, UK
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| 15.30 |
Evaluation of Multi-Sensor Surveillance Event Detectors
Francesco Ziliani, Visiowave GE Security, Switzerland
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University London, UK
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| 15.55 |
Toward Generic Intelligent Knowledge Extraction from Video and Audio: The EU-Funded Caretaker Project
C Carincotte and X Desurmont, Multitel asbl, Belgium
B Ravera, Thales Communications, France
F Bremond, INRIA, France
J Orwell and Sergio Velastin, Kingston University, UK
J M Odobez, IDIAP, Switzerland
B Corbucci, ATAC, Italy
J Palo, Solid Information Technology, Finland
J Cernocky, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic |
| 16.20 |
Discussion: A Stakeholder’s Forum for CARETAKER
Session Speakers
Open Forum |
| 17.00 |
Close of Sessions |
| 17.30 |
Registration and Refreshments for the Institution of Engineering and Technology John Pinkerton Lecture |
| 18.00 |
The Institution of Engineering and Technology John Pinkerton Lecture 2006
e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure
Lecture by Professor Tony Hey, VP Scientific Computing, Microsoft, USA |
| 19.30 |
Dinner |
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| Wednesday, 14 June 2006 |
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| 09.00 |
Opening Remarks from the Chair
Sergio Velastin, Kingston University, UK |
| 09.05 |
Keynote Address
Alan Pratt, Director HOSDB, The Home Office, UK |
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| Session 1: Detection to Reasoning |
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| 09.35 |
Digital Watermarking and Authentication For Crime Scene Analysis
Anthony TS Ho, X Zhu and B Vrusias, University of Surrey, UK
J Armstrong, Surrey Police, UK
- What is digital watermarking and authentication - an overview of this new technology
- Explain the different types of watermarking techniques – robust, fragile and semi-fragile watermarks
- Applications for law enforcement and crime scene analysis
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| 10.00 |
Program Supervision Techniques for Easy Configuration of Video Understanding Systems
Dr Monique Thonnat and Benoit Georis, ORION Team, INRIA, France
- Video surveillance applications
- How knowledge and its relation to visual clues can be represented and processed
- The planning and deployment of video processes (operators)
- Recognition of video events
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| 10.25 |
Advances in Through Wall Radar for Search, Rescue and Security Applications
Hugh Burchett, Imaging Detection and Tracking Group Leader, Cambridge Consultants, UK
- User requirements for different through wall applications
- Factors and system performance results
- Current developments alongside areas of research that are being undertaken
- The latest research findings and developments
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| 10.50 |
Refreshments |
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| Session 2: Visual Surveillance II |
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| 11.10 |
Detection of Emergency Events in Crowded Scenes
Ernesto L Andrade, Scott J Blunsden and Robert B Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| 11.35 |
Fusion of Multiple Features for Identity Estimation
James Annesley, Val Leung, Alberto Colombo and James Orwell, Kingston University, UK |
| 12.00 |
On Crowd Density Estimation for Surveillance
H Rahmalan, M S Nixon and J N Carter, University of Southampton, UK |
| 12.25 |
Lunch and Posters |
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| Session 3: Video Surveillance Challenges |
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| 13.15 |
Challenges of Future Video Surveillance Systems: An Industrial Perspective
Dr Wolfgang Niem, Project Manager Video Content Analysis, BOSCH Research, Germany
- Utilising the synergies between different application domains
- The three major design goals for real-time video surveillance systems
- The importance of platforms, embedded processing and network intelligence for future video surveillance systems
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| 13.40 |
How to Integrate Video Analytics into a City Centre CCTV Monitoring Centre
Nick Hewitson, MD, Smartcctv, UK and Ray Stead, CCTV Manager, Economy, Culture & Community Safety, Portsmouth City Council, UK
- Overview of the Perceptrak Video Analytics System
- System Architecture - How to integrate without disrupting the existing Environment
- The User’s experience - How Video Analytics can improve CCTV Monitoring effectiveness
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| 14.05 |
The Challenge of Taking Innovative Technology into the Surveillance Market
Emma Brassington, Vision Processing Group Manager, Roke Manor, UK
- The traditional Roke Manor model of technology exploitation (e.g. Hawkeye)
- Features of the surveillance market from a technology perspective and the requirement to change the exploitation model
- The challenges of exploitation in a technical and a business sense - finding partners, quantifying performance, educating end users etc
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| 14.30 |
Refreshments |
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| Session 4:Visual Surveillance III |
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| 14.50 |
Towards Face Recognition at a Distance
Simon J D Prince, University College London, UK
James Elder, Y Hou, M Sizinstev and E Olevskiy, York University, Canada |
| 15.15 |
People Detection and Recognition using Gait for Automated Visual Surveillance
Imed Bouchrika and M S Nixon, University of Southampton, UK |
| 15.40 |
Multiple Hypotesis Markov Chains for On-Line Anomaly Detection in Traffic Video Surveillance
F Archetti, Consorzio Milano Ricerche and Università Milano-Bicocca, Italy
C E Manfredotti, V Messina and D Sorrenti, Università Milano-Bicocca, Italy
M Matteucci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| 16.05 |
Panel Discussion
Session Speakers
Open Forum |
| 16.55 |
Chairman’s Closing Remarks |
| 17.00 |
Close of Conference |
Organising Committee
Sergio Velastin (Chair), Kingston University, UK
Graeme Jones (Vice-Chair), Kingston University, UK
Antonis Argyros, FORTH, Greece
George Bebis, University of Nevada, USA
François Bremond, INRIA, France
Rita Cuchiara, Università degli Studi di Modena, Italy
Anthony T S Ho, University of Surrey, UK
Louahdi Khoudour, INRETS, France
Nic Olby, University College London, UK
Li-Qun Xu, BT, UK
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