Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance remains a growing industry in response to increased security threats, and whilst new developments have brought clearer images, digital recording and high speed data transmission, effective security systems still rely upon proper specification and installation by engineers with an in depth...

The promotion of CCTV surveillance and identity cards, along with ever heightened security at airports, immigration control and institutional access, has seen a dramatic increase in the use of automated and manual recognition. In addition, several recent disasters have highlighted the problems and challenges associated with current disaster...

Performance Evaluation Software: Moving Object Detection and Tracking in Videos introduces a software approach for the real-time evaluation and performance comparison of the methods specializing in moving object detection and/or tracking (D&T) in video processing. Digital video content analysis is an important item for...

• Get to grips with the basics of Computer Vision and image processing
• This is a step-by-step guide to developing several real-world Computer Vision projects...

• Make the most out of Intel Galileo by understanding its fundamentals and architecture
• Explore sensors and devices to successfully control home functions like lights, security, energy management,...

• Detect an intruder on camera and set off an alarm
• Listen in or record conversations from a distance
• Find out what the other computers on your network are up to
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Human faces are familiar to our visual systems. We easily recognize a person's face in arbitrary lighting conditions and in a variety of poses; detect small appearance changes; and notice subtle expression details. Can computer vision systems process face images as well as human vision systems can? Face image processing has potential...

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• Turn your Raspberry Pi into a multipurpose secret agent gadget for audio/video surveillance, Wi-Fi exploration, or playing pranks on your friends
• Detect an intruder on camera...

• Build OpenCV apps for the desktop, the Raspberry Pi, Android, and the Unity game engine
• Learn real-time techniques that can be used to classify images, detecting and...

Southeast Asia has been the breeding ground for many emerging diseases in the past decade, e.g. the avian flu (H5N1) in Hong Kong in 1997, Nipah virus encephalitis in Malaysia in 1998, and, above all, the SARS outbreak in Southern China in 2002. Risk factors contributing to this situation include being economically disadvantaged, sub-standard...