This paper presents a concept, architecture and an FPGA-based prototype of a smart image sensor for video cameras to be integrated into Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems. The system utilizes a distributed cooperative architecture with appropriate level of intelligence at different levels. The sensor performs automated scene analysis and provides immediate response to suspicious events by o...

An assessment of a protocol devised to guide practitioners thinking of using covert video surveillance. Such surveillance is particularly used to help identify cases of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy. The protocol in question has been written by staff at the Academic Department of Paediatrics, North Staffordshire Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent in association with their local Area Child Protection Com...