IEEE Computer Society Inter. Conf. on Information Technology (ITCC)
Special Session on Networked Physical Security and Surveillance


http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~tboult/itcc_cfp.html



 October 17, 2003       Submission deadline
 November 14, 2003      Author Notification
 December 19, 2003      Camera Ready Copy


Video and other sensors have long been used as a part of physical
security. Physical security has been largely immune to the IT
revolution -- the data, if it is looked at all, was usually sent to
video monitors and LED displays where a security guard are supposed to
"notice" significant events in those flickering displays. But the days
of issolated CCTV systems is closing fast, as IP-based cameras and
integrated networked physical security systems being to displace
coax-and-crt systems.  Networked physical security systems can be
viewed as a special case of sensor networks, however the key research
issues are often different. Video cameras place significant demands on
both the processors and network bandwidth and hence requires special
attention. Since the primary goal is security, unlike other sensor
networked issues of cybersecurity and encryption must be
addressed. This special session, the first of its kind, will address
these topics:

    * Networked Video surveillance
    * Interaction of CyberSecurity with physical security
    * Network technology for physical security "First
    * Responders"(i.e. police/fire/EMT)
    * Sensor fusion for security systems
    * Codeing/compression of networked video for security.
    * Automated video detection/tracking in physical security systems