Video surveillance is a highly useful tool to the public transport authorities, which is now widely used as a measure to ensure passenger safety and security. While video surveillance application in static environments like airports, shopping malls, train stations has been a huge success, real-time video surveillance in moving public transport experiences serious technological challenges mainly...

The ultimate aim of performance evaluation is to improve the system efficiency. Overall efficiency of the system is a combination of three factors: system functionality, performance and cost. Whereas system functionality improvement and cost optimisation are usually well understood and implemented the third factor of system performance is usually under prioritized. The development and improveme...

A recent EMC-sponsored MeriTalk survey1, involving over 150 federal agency video surveillance experts and leaders, reports that 99% of federal agencies believe video surveillance technology will improve their agency’s operations and ability to prevent crime, theft, and terrorism over the next five years. The survey also reveals that 79% believe their agency needs to improve collaboration betwee...

The use of surveillance video recording is mainly based on the activity of monitoring the areas in which the surveillance cameras are located. Consequently, one of the motivations of observing the footage from surveillance video is to locate and identify regions of interest (e.g. suspected moving objects) in the covered areas. The visual information of objects such as color, shape, texture and ...