SACCHI , C.

This summary aims at presenting an overview of the CEC-ESPRIT AVS-RIO (Advanced Video Surveillance - Cable Television-Based Remote Video surveillance System for Protected sites Monitoring) project. The peculiarity of the project consists both in the video-surveillance application considered (i.e., the monitoring of tourist and naturalistic...

his paper aims at presenting a study of costs and performance concerning different multimedia communication techniques that can be employed in the context of the implementation of 2/sup nd/ generation remote video-surveillance systems using wired cable TV networks as a communication means. The multimedia information is acquired by video sensors...

This work1 considers the distributed decomposition of the image processing tasks in wireless video-based surveillance networks. We considered the use of a Spread Spectrum-based wireless radio link, dynamically configurable by means of software radio technology, for remote transmission of the visual information from the peripheral sensor level...

In this paper a multimedia system for surveying remote environments is presented. The goal of the proposed system is to alert the surveillance operator when an abandoned object is detected in waiting rooms of unattended railway stations. The system is based on a monochromatic TV-camera acquiring video data about the surveyed environment; this...