E&CSE Research Seminar, Friday 09 - November - 2007

Abstract:

Automated video surveillance has been flagged as the key technology to help solve many security and safety issues such as detection of physical intrusions, harm to critical infrastructure, prompt detection of endangered people and many others. In recent years, various automated video surveillance systems have come out of the labs and been successfully used in real applications. However, much research still needs to be done for such systems to become more useful and widely applicable. This talk will provide a current overview of video surveillance from the points of view of research, industry and the broader society. The speaker will also describe a pool of projects for people tracking, event detection and activity recognition that have been carried out at UTS in the last few years.

About the Speaker:

Massimo Piccardi (M.Eng. 1991, Ph.D. 1995) is an associate professor with the Faculty of Information Technology, University of  Technology , Sydney (UTS), where he leads the Computer Vision Research Group. His main research interests are in computer vision, pattern recognition and video analysis, with applications to video surveillance, human-computer interaction and multimedia. He has been the author or co-author of more than a hundred scientific papers on international journals and conference proceedings. He has also been the recipient of several competitive research grants and the principal investigator in several research projects mainly in the area of video surveillance. Dr. Piccardi is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition