Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000 Requirements, Issues and Solutions The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science Series, Vol. 573

Multimedia surveillance systems is an emerging field that includes signal and image processing, communications, and computer vision. Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues andSolutions, combines the most recent research results from these areas for use by engineers and end-users involved in the design of surveillance systems in the fields of transportation and services. The book covers emerging surveillance requirements, including new digital sensors for real-time acquisition of surveillance data, low-level image processing algorithms, and event detection methods. It also discusses problems related to knowledge representation in surveillance systems, wireless and wired multimedia networks, and a new generation of surveillance communication tools. Timely information is presented on digital watermarking, broadband multimedia transmission, legal use of surveillance systems, performance evaluation criteria, and other new and emerging topics, along with applications for transports and pedestrian monitoring. The information contained in MultimediaVideo-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions, bridges the distance between present practice and research findings, and the book is an indispensable reference tool for professional engineers.

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Emerging Requirements. 2. Digital Sensors and Adaptive Low Level Processing. 3. Detection, Learning and Recognition. 4. Distributed Intelligent Systems. 5. Communications and Multimedia Transmission. 6. Performance Evaluation and Applications. Index.