Advanced Video-Based Surveillance Systems

1 Requirements from End-Users.- 1.1. User Focused Surveillance Systems Integration for Intelligent Transport System.- 1.2 Security in Ports: The User Requirements for Surveillance Systems.- 1.3 Highway Traffic Monitoring.- 1.4 The Prevention of Vandalism in Metro Stations.- 2.Video and Image Processing.- 2.1. Video-Based Management of Traffic Light at Pedestrian Road Crossing.- 2.2 Fuzzy Motion Detection For Highway Traffic Control.- 2.3 Image Processing for Traffic Management.- 2.4 Performances Evaluation Strategies of an Image Processing System for Surveillance Applications.- 3.Video Sequence Understanding.- 3.1 Automatic Visual Surveillance of Vehicles and People.- 3.2. Image Understanding for Prevention of Vandalism in Metro Stations.- 3.3 A Neural Tree-Based Image Understanding System for Advanced Visual Surveillance.- 3.4 The Advanced Visual Monitoring Project at Irst.- 4 Communications.- 4.1. Integration of Wireless Networks and AVS.- 4.2. Use of Advanced Video Surveillance and Communication Technologies for Remote Monitoring of Protected Sites.- 4.3 Remote Detection of Abandoned Objects in Unattended Railway Stations by Using a DS/CDMA Video-Surveillance Systems.- 5.Sensors and Systems.- 5.1 Advanced Incident Management and Tolling Enforcement Systems Based on Image Processing and Video Technologies.- 5.2 Automotive Vision Systems.- 5.3 Cromatica Project.- 5.4. Generation of Radar Images of Aircraft for Design and Test of Image Processing Algorithms in Radar Applications.