Gippsland School of Information Technology (GSIT)

Video Surveillance for a

Secure and Safe Community

Surveillance cameras are everywhere

• Offices

• Parking lots

• Shopping malls

• Hospitals

• Airports

• Railway stations

• Universities

• Road sides

• Personal residences

But are we really protected?

Recently there seems to be an increase in

terrorist attacks and violence

Does more cameras equal more security?

An example: London Heathrow airport has more

than 5000 security cameras!!

Behind the scene: security control room

It is Impossible to have constant human attention

to such a large number of video streams.

Future surveillance applications

Centralized Surveillance Surveillance From

Handheld Devices

Present Future

Information Technology can make a

difference

New technology and software systems can see,

analyse and generate automatic alerts with

minimum human involvement.

Issue IT Solution

Surveillance application developed at GSIT

GSIT researchers are developing future surveillance applications

for automatic event detection.

How does it work?

• At first, the moving regions (e.g., single person, group of

people, vehicle etc) are separated from the video stream.

• Then their location, area, speed, distance from nearby

regions are analysed for the likelihood of undesirable

events occurring.

Automatic event detection

When any undesirable event is detected, the closest

security officer is automatically notified.

Time

Surveillance from handheld devices

Future possibilities include

monitoring of:

• Your home

• Child care centres

• Aged care facilities

Examples of usage

Incident

Detection

Early

Prevention

Target

Tracking

Scenario: Incident Detection

Automatic detection

of unauthorized

access to secure

places.

Scenario: Early Prevention

Advanced risk analysis

based on past surveillance

history will enable users to

undertake early preventive

measures against potential

malicious activity.

Scenario: Target Tracking

Wide area surveillance

coverage will enable

precise tracking of

terrorists and thieves.

Thank You!

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