Topics

• Surveillance Systems and solutions (system architecture aspects, operational procedures, usability, scalability)
• Multi-camera systems
• Information fusion (e.g. from visible and infrared cameras, microphone arrays etc)
• Learning systems, Cognitive Systems Engineering and video mining
• Robust computer vision algorithms (24/7 operation under variable conditions, object tracking, multi-camera algorithms, behaviour analysis and learning, scene segmentation)
• Human Machine Interfaces, Human Systems Engineering and Human Factors
• Wireless communications and networks for video surveillance, video coding, compression, authentication, watermarking, location-dependent services
• Metadata generation, video database indexing, searching and browsing
• Embedded systems, surveillance middleware
• Gesture and posture analysis and recognition
• Biometrics (including face recognition)
• Forensics and crime scene reconstruction
• X-Ray and terahertz scanning
• Case studies, practical systems and testbeds
• Data protection, civil liberties and social exclusion issues
• Algorithmic bias and transparency for machine learning
• AI ethics
• Custom FPGA based approximate computing

Local organisation:

(College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries)