Crime and anti-social behaviour have a significant cost for society and business alike. Just in the UK, anti-social behaviour alone accounts annually for around £3.3 billion of taxpayers’ money with incidents of graffiti and vandalism estimated to cost around £600 million each year. Surveillance systems of all kinds are thus being increasingly deployed in public and private locations serving as deterrence and/or for information gathering.

World events have once again highlighted the vulnerability of public spaces to attacks. However, there are serious limitations to the use of conventional monitoring systems where human operators are asked to survey a large number of cameras with a wide geographical coverage or go through enormous amounts of recorded material.

Computer-based technologies are increasingly becoming researched in what is becoming popularly known as video analytics, propelled by recent advances in processing power, fixed and wireless IP-networking technologies, volume storage, cheap cameras, etc. The realisation of such advances into working systems can have a major impact on society but also on individual liberty.

This conference follows the successful IDSS (Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems) events held in 2003 and 2004 and ICDP 2005, 2006 and 2009, to bring together researchers, industry, end-users, law-enforcing agencies and citizens groups to share experiences and explore areas where additional research and development are needed, identify possible collaboration and consider the societal impact of such technologies.


Call for papers
Full papers are invited on all aspects of Imaging Surveillance technologies, from academia, industry, NGOs and others, to be selected for oral presentations or posters through a peer-review system. See programme file for topic list and more details.

Organiser
This event has been jointly organised by the IET Vision and Imaging Network and Kingston University