ADVISE

Advanced Video Surveillance archives search Engine for security applications

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'ADVISE aims to design and develop a unification framework for surveillance-footage archive systems, in an effort to deal with the increasingly critical need to provide automated and smart surveillance solutions. This need arises due to the continuous growth of surveillance systems in scale, heterogeneity and utility. There are two major obstacles: the variety on the technical components of the surveillance systems, producing video repositories with different compression formats, indexing systems, data storage formats sources, and the fact that such a system should take into careful consideration the legal, ethical and privacy rules that govern surveillance and the produced content. Towards both, ADVISE has been formed by experts on both technological and legal, ethical, privacy aspects, with valuable experiences in the Security field. To further ensure the applicability of the proposed system, ADVISE’s consortium includes some major European security agencies, while will be in collaboration with plenty other through its Advisory Boards. In terms of implementation, the ADVISE system will be split into two major components. The first will be performing the semantically enriched, event based video analysis, which will offer efficient search capabilities into video archives and sophisticated result visualisation. The second will enforce the legal, ethical and privacy constraints that apply to the exchange and processing of the surveillance data. Towards interoperability, the exchanged content and the associated metadata will be transformed into a common format. A Dedicated ADVISE Engine will be develop per peer authority in order to efficiently deal with each peer authority’s technical and Legal/Ethical/Privacy specificities. The components of ADVISE, after negotiating all relevant legal, ethical and privacy constraints, will be able to help the law enforcement authorities fight against crime and terrorism via efficient evidence mining into heterogeneous video archives'

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An EU project is helping police obtain and analyse video evidence. The system being developed combines multiple video sources allowing sophisticated searches on the video archives, so as to pinpoint those video frames that reveal the evidence of criminal activities.

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Video surveillance forms a large part of criminal investigations, requiring advanced means of both gathering and analysing suitable video evidence. Both aspects of such inquiry are currently fraught with difficulty.

Aiming to improve matters is the EU-funded project 'Advanced video surveillance archives search engine for security applications' (http://www.advise-project.eu/ (ADVISE)). The 10-member consortium is developing a framework allowing evidence mining from multiple video archives, while also negotiating ethical and legal restraints. The system will combine multiple video archives and provide a capability for searching based on location, particular activities, individuals or objects. By its conclusion in February 2015, the group will have run for three years.

The project addressed technical and social difficulties. Regarding the former, work began with an analysis of user requirements, translated into system specifications. The resulting architecture was defined to include modularity, interoperability, and compliance with principles ensuring data confidentiality and integrity.

ADVISE's system enables authorised users to access all available videos from a given area, and to search the entire archive for relevant objects or events. Sensitive data not relevant to the investigation are anonymised. The work has resulted in a prototype system.

The second part of the project's activity will involve promoting social and legal acceptance of the developed technology both addressing the general public through dissemination activities and addressing end users, policy makers and legal and ethics experts through the organisation of workshops. Arguments will be made based on effectiveness.

ADVISE will deliver a system fostering law enforcement use and collection of video evidence from a variety of sources. The technology will mean reduced crime, lowered economic impact of the fight against crime and business opportunities for European SMEs.