Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications, 2010 Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 282

The advances in the generation and processing of multimedia data (e. g. documents, images, video, audio, animations, etc. ) have had an immense impact on multimedia applications and, as a result, multimedia has permeated almost every aspect of our daily lives. This development has also brought with it a whole host of issues and ch- lenges which were either not as apparent before or were non-existent. Today, digital media is relied upon as primary news and information resource, as evidence in a court of law, as part of medical records or as financial documents. However, there is still lack of authoritative mechanisms to verify the origin and veracity of media data. - deed, multimedia content has become an extremely valuable asset, and it is being both disseminated and consumed on a larger scale than ever before, but the issues conce- ing how the content owners and publishers should control the distribution of and - cess to their content have not been satisfactorily resolved yet. There are various other issues related to use of multimedia that require further analysis and research. For example, it is a known fact that some criminal organi- tions communicate with its members by posting information embedded media to p- lic forums and web-sites to evade surveillance by law enforcement. Conventional multimedia processing approaches do not provide sufficiently effective means for - fending against such communication.

Moving Pixels in Static Cameras: Detecting Dangerous Situations due to Environment or People.- Recognizing Interactions in Video.- Robust Audio Visual Biometric Person Authentication with Liveness Verification.- Multiple Traits for People Identification.- Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Emerging Biometrics.- Overview of Audio Forensics.- Printer and Scanner Forensics: Models and Methods.- Privacy Enhancing Solutions for Personal Information Based Multimedia Content Sharing.- Image-Based Sensitive Information Filtering for Teleradiology.- Detecting Nakedness in Color Images.- An Introduction to the Principles and Requirements of Robust Hashing.- Content-Based Video Copy Detection – A Survey.- Image Steganalysis.- WBE-Based Anti-collusion Fingerprints: Design and Detection.- An Introduction to Robust Transform Based Image Watermarking Techniques.- Watermark-Based Authentication.

Gives a thorough description of intelligent multimedia analysis techniques used for security applications Covers the basic theories, architectures and algorithms of multimedia (Image, Video, Audio, Speech, etc.) analysis techniques for security applications Written by experts in the field