Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792379270)

Multimedia surveillance systems is an emerging field that includes signal and image processing, communications, and computer vision. Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions, 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 Multimedia Video-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.

Author: Gian Luca Foresti
ISBN-10: 0792379276
ISBN-13: 9780792379270
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2000
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.42w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2001 pg. 21