Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems

1. Emerging Requirements.- 1.1 Forensic Video Investigation: The Surveillance Videotape as Evidence in Court.- 1.2 Railway Station Surveillance: The Italian Case.- 1.3 Requirements for Visual Perception of Automotive Environments.- 2. Digital Sensors and Adaptive Low Level Processing.- 2.1 Cmos Image Sensing for Surveillance Applications and Object Tracking.- 2.2 DSP-Oriented Low Level Processing for Adaptive Tuning of Video Surveillance Images.- 2.3 Image Analysis for Advanced Video Surveillance.- 3. Detection, Learning and Recognition.- 3.1 Dynamic Shape Detection for Multiple Camera Systems.- 3.2 Learning and Classification of Suspicious Events for Advanced Visual-Based Surveillance.- 3.3 A New Solution Philosophy for Complex Pattern Recognition Problems: Application to Advanced Video-Surveillance.- 4. Distributed Intelligent Systems.- 4.1 An Agent Society for Scene Interpretation.- 4.2 Dyta: An Intelligent System for Dynamic Target Analysis.- 4.3 Single Camera Multiplexing for Multi-Target Tracking.- 4.4 Network Management within an Architecture for Distributed Hierarchial Digital Surveillance Systems.- 5. Communications and Multimedia Transmission.- 5.1 Scalable H.324 Video-Based Surveillance System.- 5.2 Broadband Multimedia Transmission For Surveillance Applications.- 5.3 Digital Watermarking for the Authentication of AVS Video Sequences.- 5.4 Actual High-Speed Modem Solutions for Multimedia Transmission in Remote Cable-Based Video-Surveillance Systems.- 6. Performance Evaluation and Applications.- 6.1 Minimax Based Regulation of Change Detection Threshold in Video-Surveillance Systems.- 6.2 Performance Analysis of Multi- Sensor Based Real-Time People Detection and Tracking System.- 6.3 Use of Different Time Scale References for Measuring Several Crowd Situations.- 6.4 Vehicle Detection From Multiple Radar Images in an Advanced System for Driving Assistance.- 6.5 License-Plate Recognition for Restricted-Access Area Control.- 6.6 Dynamic Vision for License Plate Recognition.