Engineering Innovation in
Digital Defense, Aerospace & Homeland Security
A surveillance system supporting investigators to detect criminal activities by using advanced video analysis techniques.
Approach & Solution
Approach
Current procedures for investigating video archives are cumbersome and time consuming: existing systems are limited to the use of single platforms and do not allow the use of heterogeneous and distributed archives. Most of them do not offer flexibility to search for and retrieve specific incidents, security events and dangerous beheaviours allowing to extract only a small list of objects and usually at run-time.
SURVANT research project responds to the need for novel tools able to exploit spatio-temporal relationships and connections among video footages coming from the analysis of multi-camera video of several video archives to automatically support law enforcement authorities in their fight against crime and terrorism enabling the custody of the chain of evidence for the court.
SURVANT research project responds to the need for novel tools able to exploit spatio-temporal relationships and connections among video footages coming from the analysis of multi-camera video of several video archives to automatically support law enforcement authorities in their fight against crime and terrorism enabling the custody of the chain of evidence for the court.
Solution
SURVANT offers an innovative surveillance system with a unified interface that enables evidence extraction from heterogeneous video archives and assists the user in creating advanced search queries that can combine time, location, objects, and actions using semantic reasoning techniques.
Intelligent investigation assistance features dramatically improve investigator efficiency while treating personal data ethically.
Engineering coordinated the design and definition of the system architecture. It was responsible for the anonymization, privacy and data protection processes and for demonstrating the prototype in an operational environment. The project has received co-funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme FTIPilot-2015-1 - Contract N. 720417.
Intelligent investigation assistance features dramatically improve investigator efficiency while treating personal data ethically.
Engineering coordinated the design and definition of the system architecture. It was responsible for the anonymization, privacy and data protection processes and for demonstrating the prototype in an operational environment. The project has received co-funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme FTIPilot-2015-1 - Contract N. 720417.
Results
Advanced Video Analysis techniques
Semantic reasoning on events extracted from footage
Trajectory Mining
Privacy by design approach
Novel GUI for an optimized user experience
Project value
Cost cutting
Process performance
Innovation
Visibility
Enabling Technologies
AI & Advanced Analytics
Project Team
Research & Innovation